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Cecelia: He’s very good looking.

Alec: (Still thoughtfully) She won’t marry him, but a girl doesn’t have to marry a man to break his heart.

Cecelia: What does it? I wish I knew the secret.

Alec: Why, you cold-blooded little kitty. It’s lucky for some that the Lord gave you a pug nose.

(Enter Mrs. Connage.)

Mrs. Connage: Where on earth is Rosalind?

Alec: (Brilliantly) Of course you’ve come to the best people to find out. She’d naturally be with us.

Mrs. Connage: Her father has marshalled eight bachelor millionaires to meet her.

Alec: You might form a squad and march through the halls.

Mrs. Connage: I’m perfectly serious—for all I know she may be at the Cocoanut Grove with some football player on the night of her début. You look left and I’ll——

Alec: (Flippantly) Hadn’t you better send the butler through the cellar?

Mrs. Connage: (Perfectly serious) Oh, you don’t think she’d be there?

Cecelia: He’s only joking, mother.

Alec: Mother had a picture of her tapping a keg of beer with some high hurdler.