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Rosalind: (Outside) Well, then, prove it by coming here and hooking me.

(Mrs. Connage goes.)

Alec: Rosalind hasn’t changed a bit.

Cecelia: (In a lower tone) She’s awfully spoiled.

Alec: She’ll meet her match to-night.

Cecelia: Who—Mr. Amory Blaine?

(Alec nods.)

Cecelia: Well, Rosalind has still to meet the man she can’t outdistance. Honestly, Alec, she treats men terribly. She abuses them and cuts them and breaks dates with them and yawns in their faces—and they come back for more.

Alec: They love it.

Cecelia: They hate it. She’s a—she’s a sort of vampire, I think—and she can make girls do what she wants usually—only she hates girls.

Alec: Personality runs in our family.

Cecelia: (Resignedly) I guess it ran out before it got to me.

Alec: Does Rosalind behave herself?

Cecelia: Not particularly well. Oh, she’s average—smokes sometimes, drinks punch, frequently kissed—Oh, yes—common knowledge—one of the effects of the war, you know.

(Emerges Mrs. Connage.)

Mrs. Connage: Rosalind’s almost finished so I can go down and meet your friend.