After to-day!
MURIEL.
From this moment. Harry--
QUEX.
Hey?
MURIEL.
I won't keep you till the end of the year. Marry me, and have done with
it, directly the Season is over, and take me away.
QUEX.
[_Bending over her hand._] Good heavens--! [MISS LIMBIRD _holds the_
portiere _aside and admits_ LADY OWBRIDGE, _the_ DUCHESS OF STROOD,
_and_ MRS. EDEN. MISS LIMBIRD _then returns to her desk._ QUEX _goes to_
LADY OWBRIDGE, _takes her arm, and leads her forward._] Aunt Julia!
aunt! my dear aunt Julia!
[_The_ DUCHESS _joins_ FRAYNE. MRS. EDEN _comes to_ MURIEL _and receives
the news of the hastened marriage._ SOPHY _moves away to the window._
QUEX.
[_Excitedly, to_ LADY OWBRIDGE.] Oh, my dear aunt!
LADY OWBRIDGE.
What ails you, Henry?
QUEX.
Muriel! she--she--she's going to marry me!
LADY OWBRIDGE.
I hope so.
QUEX.
But at the end of the Season! a month hence! a month, a month, a month!
LADY OWBRIDGE.
My dear boy! Heaven prosper your union! Muriel--
MRS.
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