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Of course! you had my card.
MARGERY.
I knew from uncle, too. How good of him to bring it all about!
LADY WARGRAVE.
Theodore!
MARGERY.
I mean, to reconcile you!
LADY WARGRAVE.
My dear Margery, your uncle has never presumed to mention the subject?
MARGERY.
Oh, what a story he has told us! he said it was _his_ doing.
LADY WARGRAVE.
No doubt. When you know Theodore as well as I do, you will have learnt what value to attach to his observations!
MARGERY.
Won't I pay him out?
[_Shaking her fist._
LADY WARGRAVE.
Never mind your uncle. Tell me about yourself--and about Gerald. I hope your marriage has turned out a happy one.
MARGERY.
Yes--we're as happy as the day is long.
LADY WARGRAVE.
That is good news. Then you haven't found your new position difficult?
MARGERY.
Oh, I'm quite used to it! I'm not a bit shy now. Of course I put my foot in it--I make mistakes sometimes; but even born ladies sometimes make mistakes.
LADY WARGRAVE.
Yes, Margery. [_Bending her head slightly._] And Gerald?
MARGERY.
Is the best husband in the world to me. Of course, he's very busy----
LADY WARGRAVE.
Busy?
MARGERY.
With his book; and sometimes I can't help annoying him. That's nothing. We haven't had a real cross word yet.
LADY WARGRAVE.
Does he write very much?
MARGERY.
Oh, morning, noon, and night. He's always got a pen in his hand. I often say I wonder he doesn't wear the ceiling out with looking at it.
[_Laughs._
LADY WARGRAVE.
That isn't writing, Margery.
MARGERY.
No, but it's thinking--and he's always thinking.
[_Falls into a reverie._
LADY WARGRAVE.
Do you go out much?
MARGERY.
We went out a good deal at first, but we got tired of it. I like home best; at any rate, Gerald does. I rather liked going out. Oh, I'm quite a success in society.
LADY WARGRAVE.
Indeed?
MARGERY.
Of course, aunt, I'm not clever; but I suppose I'm witty without knowing it!
