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RhACT IV. is the most sympathetic of husbands. Quite a model. Good-bye, Gerald, give my fondest love to your mother.

MRS. ALLONBY Good-bye, Mr. Arbuthnot.

GERALD Good-bye.

GERALD What name can I sign? I, who have no right to any name. [Signs name, puts letter into envelope, addresses it, and is about to seal it, when door L.C. opens and MRS. ARBUTHNOT enters. GERALD ''lays down sealing-wax. Mother and son look at each other.'']

LADY HUNSTANTON [Through French window at the back.] Good-bye again, Gerald. We are taking the short cut across your pretty garden. 157