Part 3
You mean you’ve never quite approved of me.
EVELYN
I didn’t say that.
CAROL
I believe it’s true, all the same.
EVELYN
I’ve wondered a bit what you were really like.
CAROL
[_With subtle pathos_]
I don’t think I know, myself.
EVELYN
You haven’t had much time to think, have you?
CAROL
No—I suppose not.
EVELYN
[_Sententiously_]
We’re all so different underneath.
CAROL
[_Laughing_]
Oh, Evie!
EVELYN
What?
CAROL
You’re awfully serious.
EVELYN
Don’t laugh at me.
CAROL
I wasn’t.
EVELYN
I don’t mind, really; it shows that you’re enjoying yourself.
CAROL
I am thoroughly.
EVELYN
I was terrified that you’d be bored.
CAROL
You’re fishing again.
EVELYN
I wish you weren’t so quick; it embarrasses me.
[_He laughs._]
CAROL
I’ll try to be slower.
[_She laughs too._]
EVELYN
I’m the plodding sort, you know—gets there in the end, but takes a long time about it.
CAROL
Nonsense!
EVELYN
The British army doesn’t specialize in wit.
CAROL
I won’t hear a word against the British army.
EVELYN
[_With jocularity_]
Hurrah!
[_They both laugh._]
CAROL
You’re like a schoolboy.
EVELYN
I feel one with you.
CAROL
Do I look so terribly old?
EVELYN
You know I didn’t mean that.
CAROL
I’ll let you off this time, but you mustn’t do it again.
[_BLACKWELL enters with the soup; he takes away the caviare plates._]
EVELYN
How long is it since you dined quietly like this?
CAROL
Oh, ages.
EVELYN
I thought so.
CAROL
You’re looking disapproving again.
[_BLACKWELL serves the soup and exits._]
EVELYN
I think I’m envious.
CAROL
Envious?
EVELYN
Yes.
CAROL
No, you’re not, really.
EVELYN
Your life would never suit me, I know, but somehow it does sound rather fun, for a change.
CAROL
Let’s make a bargain.
EVELYN
I know what you’re going to say.
CAROL
Change over for a bit.
EVELYN
Temptress.
CAROL
You come out to a few theaters and parties with me—
EVELYN
I can’t dance well enough.
CAROL
I’ll soon teach you.
EVELYN
I’d drive you mad.
CAROL
Have you a gramophone here?
EVELYN
Yes.
CAROL
We’ll start after dinner.
EVELYN
All right.
CAROL
And whenever I’m tired and sick of everything, I’ll come here and dine quietly like this.
EVELYN
Will you, honestly?
CAROL
Of course, if you stick to your side of the compact.
EVELYN
I don’t believe you’ll have the patience to carry it through.
CAROL
You must despise me.
EVELYN
Despise you? Good Heavens! Why?
CAROL
You’re so untrusting.
EVELYN
No, I’m not; but it does look as though I were going to get more out of this than you.
CAROL
Not at all. It’s a perfectly fair exchange. You’ve no idea how utterly weary I get every now and then.
EVELYN
Poor Carol.
CAROL
This is peace, absolute peace, and I’m tremendously grateful to you for it.
[_They look at each other in silence for a moment. EVELYN’S expression is faintly nonplused._]
EVELYN
The compact’s on.
CAROL
Good! Shake hands.
EVELYN
Right you are.
[_They shake hands across the table. CAROL allows hers to remain in his a shade more than is strictly necessary._]
CAROL
Do you want to come to the first night of “Round Pegs” on Thursday?
EVELYN
What on earth’s that?
CAROL
A new play by Burton Trask.
EVELYN
Who’s he?
CAROL
[_Laughing_]
Oh, Evie!
EVELYN
Well, how should I know?
CAROL
He’s only the most talked of dramatist we’ve got.
EVELYN
Sorry.
CAROL
He wrote “The Sinful Spinster.”
EVELYN
Oh, the play all the fuss was about last year.
CAROL
Yes.
EVELYN
It sounded pretty hot stuff.
CAROL
It wasn’t, really, but the woman in it fell in love with a man younger than herself and the Church of England didn’t like it.
EVELYN
Oh, I see!
CAROL
You need educating badly.
EVELYN
I’m afraid I do.
[_BLACKWELL enters and takes away their soup plates._]
CAROL
Wasn’t it funny us talking this afternoon and you asking me to dine all in a minute?
EVELYN
Awfully funny, but very lucky for me.
CAROL
You make me feel shy when you say things like that. It was just as lucky for me.
EVELYN
[_With intensity_]
Was it, honestly?
CAROL
[_Looking down_]
Of course.
[_BLACKWELL enters with partridges and attendant vegetables. He serves them during the ensuing dialogue._]
EVELYN
Edward’s looking awfully tired these days.
CAROL
[_Absently_]
Is he? I haven’t noticed it.
EVELYN
Why, you said so yourself this afternoon.
CAROL
So I did. I remember he looked very wan when I came in. By the way, what were you two discussing so intently. I felt as though I were interrupting a Masonic meeting.
EVELYN
Nothing particular.
CAROL
Me, by any chance?
EVELYN
Good Heavens, no!
CAROL
There’s no need to be so vehement about it; it wouldn’t have mattered if you had been.
EVELYN
Have some more champagne.
CAROL
Thanks—just a little.
[_She holds out her glass and he fills it, also his own._]
EVELYN
[_With great boldness_]
Why did you think we were talking about you?
CAROL
You both looked so guilty.
EVELYN
Surely that proves we weren’t.
CAROL
Very good, Evie.
EVELYN
You’re embarrassing me dreadfully.
CAROL
Am I? Why?
EVELYN
Because we _were_ discussing you.
CAROL
Ah!
EVELYN
I see it’s useless to try and deceive you for moment.
CAROL
What were you saying?
EVELYN
Must I tell you?
CAROL
Certainly.
EVELYN
You’re terribly unrelenting.
CAROL
Come on—out with it.
EVELYN
I was lecturing Edward.
[_BLACKWELL goes out._]
CAROL
Lecturing him?
EVELYN
Yes. I said he was paying too much attention to his work and not enough to you.
CAROL
And do you think that’s true?
EVELYN
Yes.
CAROL
It isn’t; it’s the other way round, really. I neglect Edward. You should have saved your lecture for me.
EVELYN
I’m sure it’s his fault, really, he’s so damned lackadaisical.
CAROL
It was nice of you, but a little interfering.
EVELYN
I’m sorry. I suppose I deserve to be snubbed.
CAROL
I’m not snubbing you, exactly, but I’m puzzled.
EVELYN
Why puzzled?
CAROL
It seems so strange that you should have taken up the cudgels on my side.
EVELYN
That was how I saw the situation.
CAROL
I never realized there was a situation.
EVELYN
There isn’t, but there may be soon.
CAROL
How horrid of you!
EVELYN
I know Edward pretty well, you know.
CAROL
And me hardly at all.
EVELYN
Exactly. That’s why I went to him, as I told you this afternoon. I always felt that you disliked me and thought me dull.
CAROL
How absurd!
EVELYN
You did, all the same. You’d have crushed me to the earth if I’d dared mention the subject to you.
CAROL
You must have thought me a prig.
EVELYN
Not in the least. I quite saw your point.
CAROL
And now—?
EVELYN
Now I’m muddled.
CAROL
Have I muddled you, Evie?
EVELYN
Yes, terribly.
CAROL
I’m so glad.
EVELYN
That’s malicious of you.
CAROL
Go ahead with your lecture.
EVELYN
Certainly not.
CAROL
Whose fault do you consider this slight drifting apart—Edward’s or mine?
EVELYN
Edward’s.
CAROL
I told you it was mine.
EVELYN
I don’t believe you.
CAROL
Stubborn.
EVELYN
Is it yours?
CAROL
Yes.
EVELYN
Why?
CAROL
[_Seriously_]
Oh, Evie—
EVELYN
Tell me.
CAROL
It’s rather difficult.
EVELYN
I’m awfully sympathetic.
CAROL
I believe you are.
EVELYN
You love him still, don’t you?
CAROL
Yes—in a way.
EVELYN
But not so much as you did?
CAROL
Not quite so much.
EVELYN
I suppose that’s inevitable in married life, always.
CAROL
I expect it is.
EVELYN
It’s sad, though.
CAROL
Not if one isn’t sentimental about it.
EVELYN
Are you ever sentimental about anything?
CAROL
[_Wistfully_]
Do I seem so hard?
EVELYN
A little, I think.
CAROL
I’m not, really.
EVELYN
I’m afraid Edward’s unhappy.
CAROL
Not deep down inside.
EVELYN
Are you sure?
CAROL
He may think he is.
EVELYN
Poor Edward.
CAROL
He doesn’t love me quite so much, either, you know.
EVELYN
Perhaps he wants to, but you won’t let him.
CAROL
Evie, why are we talking like this?
EVELYN
I don’t know.
CAROL
I can’t bear to pretend about things.
EVELYN
You’re quite right; it doesn’t pay in the long run.
CAROL
But I don’t want you to blame Edward and lecture him for something that’s not entirely his fault.
EVELYN
I see.
CAROL
I’m awfully fond of him and I always shall be, but—
EVELYN
But what?
CAROL
Don’t let’s say any more about it.
EVELYN
All right. You’re rather a dear, you know.
CAROL
Am I?
EVELYN
More than I ever suspected!
CAROL
Oh, Evie!
[_They look at each other for a moment, EVELYN intently, CAROL with a faintly wistful smile. BLACKWELL enters to collect the plates and serve the sweet—pêche Melba—which he does during ensuing dialogue._]
EVELYN
You don’t like Zoe St. Merryn, do you?
CAROL
Why do you suddenly ask that?
EVELYN
I felt you didn’t this afternoon.
CAROL
She’s rather obvious, I think.
EVELYN
In what way?
CAROL
She tries to be clever.
EVELYN
I always thought she was clever.
CAROL
Yes, most men do, but very few women.
EVELYN
Why is that?
CAROL
Because they see through her. All that divorce business was a put-up job.
EVELYN
I say, Carol!
CAROL
Don’t look so shocked. Of course it was. She’s been so brave and defiant over it. Men love that.
EVELYN
Aren’t you being a little hard on her?
CAROL
No, not really. I know her type so well.
EVELYN
She’s an old friend of Edward’s, isn’t she?
CAROL
Yes, but that hasn’t anything to do with it. She tried to marry him once.
EVELYN
He seems very fond of her.
CAROL
She flatters him terribly. He’s an awful baby.
EVELYN
Thank Heaven I haven’t got your feminine intuition. It must complicate life dreadfully.
CAROL
It’s very useful sometimes.
EVELYN
Do you size everyone up so mercilessly.
CAROL
[_Laughing_]
Perhaps.
EVELYN
I’m trembling visibly.
CAROL
Nonsense! You’re not frightened by anything, really.
EVELYN
You don’t know!
[_BLACKWELL goes out._]
CAROL
Well, you shouldn’t be, anyhow.
EVELYN
That’s different.
CAROL
Why did you ask me not to tell Edward I was dining with you?
EVELYN
[_Nonplused_]
Did I?
CAROL
You know you did.
EVELYN
Perhaps I was afraid he’d think I was interfering again.
CAROL
Did he tell you that, too?
EVELYN
Yes.
CAROL
[_Smiling_]
Never mind.
EVELYN
I don’t. I’m used to Edward.
CAROL
So am I.
EVELYN
But when you tell me I’m interfering, I feel beastly.
CAROL
You are, you know.
EVELYN
There! You’ve done it again.
CAROL
People like Edward and me should be left to manage our own troubles.
EVELYN
All right. From now on I won’t say a word.
CAROL
Cheer up.
EVELYN
I’m a blundering fool, anyhow.
CAROL
[_Laughing_]
Yes.
EVELYN
And instead of making you like me, I’ve made you laugh at me.
CAROL
That’s not quite true.
EVELYN
I’m afraid it is.
CAROL
You don’t know a bit what I’m really like.
EVELYN
No.
CAROL
Do you want to?
EVELYN
Yes.
CAROL
I’m not sure that it’s wise.
EVELYN
Why not?
CAROL
You might be shocked.
EVELYN
As bad as that?
CAROL
Yes—as bad as that.
EVELYN
I don’t believe it.
CAROL
Good.
EVELYN
You’re too sensitive to behave really badly.
CAROL
That’s nonsense.
EVELYN
No, it isn’t.
CAROL
Sensitiveness hasn’t anything to do with it.
EVELYN
Yes, it has.
CAROL
Don’t contradict me.
EVELYN
[_With truculence_]
Why shouldn’t I?
CAROL
Because it infuriates me.
EVELYN
[_Slowly_]
We’re almost quarreling.
CAROL
Yes.
EVELYN
I’m sorry.
CAROL
Antagonism is a bad sign.
EVELYN
What do you mean?
CAROL
[_Suddenly burying her face in her hands_]
Oh, Evie!
EVELYN
[_Alarmed_]
What on earth’s the matter?
CAROL
[_Muffled_]
Nothing.
EVELYN
Carol, don’t—please—
[_He gets up and comes to her._]
CAROL
No, no. Sit down. Your man will be in in a moment.
EVELYN
Do tell me what’s wrong.
CAROL
Sit down, please.
EVELYN
All right.
[_He sits down._]
CAROL
Give me my bag, will you? It’s over there. I want to powder my nose.
[_EVELYN rises. When his back is toward her, an expression of extreme satisfaction flits across CAROL’S face. By the time he has turned she is once again bravely melancholy._]
EVELYN
Here.
[_He gives her her bag._]
CAROL
Thank you.
[_She looks up at him with a weary smile. BLACKWELL enters and takes away the remains of the sweet._]
EVELYN
Serve the coffee at once, Blackwell; then I shan’t want you any more.
BLACKWELL
Very good, sir.
[_He goes out._]
CAROL
I feel better now.
EVELYN
I don’t suppose you’ll ever want to dine with me again.
CAROL
Don’t be silly. Of course I shall.
EVELYN
I seem to have depressed you terribly.
CAROL
No—it’s not your fault, really.
EVELYN
I wish I understood you a bit better.
CAROL
I’m glad you don’t.
[_BLACKWELL enters with coffee and liqueurs, which he places beside EVELYN._]
EVELYN
Thank you, Blackwell. Good night.
BLACKWELL
Good night, sir.
[_He goes out._]
EVELYN
Coffee?
CAROL
Yes, please.
EVELYN
[_Pouring it out_]
Sugar?
CAROL
One.
EVELYN
[_Handing it to her_]
There. Cointreau or brandy?
CAROL
Cointreau—just a little.
EVELYN
The brandy’s very good.
CAROL
All right. Brandy, then—you’re so dominant.
EVELYN
Don’t laugh at me any more.
CAROL
I must a little.
EVELYN
Here you are.
[_He gives her some brandy and takes some himself._]
CAROL
Next time I come I’ll try to be more amusing.
EVELYN
I don’t want you to be amusing if you don’t feel like it.
CAROL
You’re awfully kind and gentle.
EVELYN
I want you to relax completely.
CAROL
I am relaxing completely.
EVELYN
I feel you need it.
CAROL
No one else has ever taken the trouble to feel that.
EVELYN
They’re all too occupied in enjoying themselves.
CAROL
But I don’t think they do, really.
EVELYN
That’s true, but they wouldn’t dare admit it.
CAROL
Put the gramophone on.
EVELYN
Now?
CAROL
Yes, please, or I shall cry again.
EVELYN
[_Rising_]
What shall we have?
CAROL
Something blaring and noisy.
EVELYN
What a baby you are!
CAROL
Am I? [_He puts on a foxtrot and stands by the machine looking at her. After a pause she speaks._] I love this tune.
EVELYN
It’s not very new, I’m afraid. I must get some more of the latest ones.
CAROL
Are you ready for your lesson?
EVELYN
Lesson?
CAROL
Yes, your dancing lesson.
EVELYN
If you are.
CAROL
Of course I am! Come on.
[_She rises._]
EVELYN
I’ll push the table back. [_He does so._] There.
CAROL
Now then.
[_They begin to dance._]
EVELYN
Is the time all right?
CAROL
A scrap too fast.
EVELYN
Wait a minute.
[_He stops for a second and regulates the time._]
CAROL
That’s better.
[_They dance again._]
EVELYN
I’m so sorry. Did I kick you?
CAROL
No.
EVELYN
I warned you, didn’t I?
CAROL
Hold me a little tighter.
EVELYN
All right.
[_They dance in silence for a moment._]
CAROL
This is divine.
EVELYN
You’re not teaching me a thing.
CAROL
You don’t need it.
EVELYN
You’re just being polite. I dance like an elephant.
CAROL
Don’t be ridiculous. It would be terribly funny if anyone suddenly came in and found us.
EVELYN
There’s not the least chance of it.
[_They dance in silence for a little._]
CAROL
Oh!
EVELYN
What is it?
CAROL
We nearly crashed into that chair.
EVELYN
I’m afraid I wasn’t concentrating.
CAROL
That’s very naughty of you. You must.
EVELYN
All right.
[_The record comes to an end._]
CAROL
Put on another.
EVELYN
Very well.
[_While he does so, CAROL looks at herself carefully in the glass over the mantelpiece._]
CAROL
I’m enjoying myself frightfully.
EVELYN
Are you, really?
CAROL
Aren’t you?
EVELYN
You know I am.
[_He takes her in his arms again._]
CAROL
You really must hold me a little tighter—it’s so much easier to follow.
EVELYN
Like that?
CAROL
Yes—like that.
[_They stand still, she surrendering herself to him, and holds up her face deliberately to be kissed._]
EVELYN
[_Softly_]
Carol!
[_He kisses her. They stand tightly clasped for a moment; then he firmly disentangles himself and turns off the gramophone._]
CAROL
[_Sinking onto the sofa and passing her hand across her eyes_]
Oh, Evie!
EVELYN
[_In a different tone_]
I thought so.
CAROL
[_Looking up quickly_]
What do you mean?
EVELYN
It’s unbelievable.
[_He strides about a little._]
CAROL
[_Alarmed_]
What on earth are you talking about?
EVELYN
I was right. I knew it.
CAROL
[_Becoming exasperated_]
Knew what?
EVELYN
I’m not quite such easy game as all that.
CAROL
[_Rising_]
Evie!
EVELYN
What a little rotter you are.
CAROL
[_Outraged_]
What!!
EVELYN
Yes, you may well look surprised. I, unfortunately, am _not_ surprised.
CAROL
[_After a pause_]
I’m beginning to understand.
EVELYN
I’m glad.
CAROL
Very clever. I must congratulate Edward.
EVELYN
It’s nothing to do with Edward.
CAROL
Liar!
[_She goes and takes up her cloak._]
EVELYN
You’re not going yet.
CAROL
On the contrary, I’m going immediately.
EVELYN
Not until I choose.
CAROL
Don’t speak to me like that.
EVELYN
I’m going to speak to you as you’ve never been spoken to before.
CAROL
Pompous ass!
[_She flings her cloak over her arm and goes toward the door. EVELYN stands between her and the door._]
EVELYN
You’re going to stay here.
CAROL
[_Contemptuously_]
Don’t be so ridiculous.
EVELYN
I mean it.
CAROL
Are you quite mad?
EVELYN
No, not at all; I’m unflatteringly sane.
CAROL
Do you intend to use force to keep me here?
EVELYN
Yes, if necessary.
CAROL
Evie—what have you been reading?
[_She flings down her cloak and returns to the sofa._]
EVELYN
That’s right.
CAROL
[_Helping herself to a cigarette_]
I always thought you were a fool.
EVELYN
Thank you. I’m sorry I was less of a fool than you hoped.
CAROL
I didn’t hope for much, whatever happened.
EVELYN
You’d forgotten I was Edward’s best friend.
CAROL
You’re very, very sure of yourself.
EVELYN
I can afford to be. I live decently.
CAROL
Rubbish!
EVELYN
And I’ve got a little honor left.
CAROL
Even after living decently.
EVELYN
You would say a thing like that.
CAROL
I did.
EVELYN
I should like to say one thing—
CAROL
Please do.
EVELYN
If you and I were alone on a desert island I wouldn’t touch you.
CAROL
That would be very silly of you.
EVELYN
[_Rapidly losing his temper_]
Haven’t you any modesty or shame anywhere?
CAROL
[_Smiling_]
Oh dear!
EVELYN
Stop being flippant; it’s only a mask to cover your humiliation.
CAROL
How discerning you are!
EVELYN
I know you much better than you think I do.
CAROL
Idiot!
EVELYN
Flinging epithets at me won’t help.
CAROL
Fatuous prig.
EVELYN
Shut up.
CAROL
[_Rising_]
May I go now please?
EVELYN
[_Almost shouting_]
No.
CAROL
[_Sitting down_]
Very well.
EVELYN
I’m Edward’s best friend.
CAROL
You’ve said that before.
EVELYN
And I’m damned if I’m going to stand by and see him cheapened and humiliated by you.
CAROL
You’re insufferable.
EVELYN
That’s beside the point.
CAROL
[_Suddenly furious_]
It is _not_ beside the point! How dare you behave like this! If you were Edward’s Siamese twin you’ve no right to ask me here and insult me. You surely don’t imagine that by talking until you’re blue in the face you could ever alter my life one way or another. You’ve played a filthy second-rate trick on me and you think you did it for Edward’s sake, but all the time it was only to prove to yourself how clever you are. You’ve got to let me go now—at once. Do you hear? If not I’ll scream the place down. [_She rises and makes a dash for the door. He intercepts her. She struggles. He grasps her wrist._] Let me go. Help! Help!
EVELYN
Shut up, you little fool!
[_He puts his hand over her mouth and drags her back to the sofa, upon which she collapses, sobbing._]
CAROL
[_Almost hysterical, in muffled tones_]
How dare you! Oh, how dare you! It’s outrageous! It’s—
EVELYN
Do you want some brandy?
CAROL
Don’t speak to me.
EVELYN
[_With emphasis_]
Do you want some brandy!
CAROL
No.
EVELYN
You’d better have some. Stay where you are. [_He goes over and pours out a glass of brandy and brings it to her._] Here—sit up.
CAROL
Go away. Don’t come near me.
EVELYN
You’re hysterical. Drink this and pull yourself together.
[_He puts his arm round her to lift her up. She wriggles free of him, sits up quickly by herself, snatches the glass from his hand and flings it into the fireplace._]
CAROL
I don’t want your filthy brandy.
EVELYN
That was childish.
CAROL
Why are you doing this to me? Why? Why? What have I ever done to you?
EVELYN
You’re on the verge of ruining the life of one of the best men that ever lived.
CAROL
[_Tearfully_]
How?
EVELYN
You know perfectly well how.
CAROL
It’s no business of yours—what I do—ever.
EVELYN
I’ve made it my business. What you attempted to-night with me you’ve accomplished with other men—you’ve flirted and encouraged them to make love to you, and in many cases you’ve given yourself to them—
CAROL
Evie!
EVELYN
I don’t want you to deny it or affirm it. I _know_ it’s true, but I don’t think Edward does; he loves you too much to believe it possible, and my object in playing on you this second-rate trick, as you call it, is to make you realize what a hideous mess you’re making both of his life and your own. [_During this speech CAROL is looking at EVIE intently. He begins to stride up and down while he talks._] Edward’s too sensitive and reserved to fight for his own rights. I’ve known for ages that he wasn’t happy—that something was weighing on his mind. To-day I asked him plump out and he admitted—
[_He pauses._]
CAROL
What did he admit?
EVELYN
That he was worried and miserable about you.
CAROL
[_Calmly_]
And what did you advise him to do?
EVELYN
Give you hell.
CAROL
How crude of you!
EVELYN
Women of your sort require a little crudity occasionally.
CAROL
What do you mean “women of my sort”?
EVELYN
Do you want me to tell you?
CAROL
No; I don’t want you to say any more at all.
EVELYN
You have the soul of a harlot!
CAROL
[_Suddenly bursting out laughing_]
Oh, Evie!
EVELYN
[_Losing control_]
Don’t laugh. Don’t laugh.
CAROL
[_Continuing to laugh_]
What do you expect me to do? You’re so ridiculous—
EVELYN
I suppose you consider anyone with decent ideals ridiculous?
CAROL
[_Laughing helplessly_]
Oh dear! Oh dear!
EVELYN
[_Working himself up more and more_]
You think it funny that I should make an attempt to defend the honor of my best friend, who is too shamed by your utter wantonness to defend himself—
CAROL
[_Growing hysterical_]
You’re mad—quite, quite mad—
EVELYN
You’re deliberately ruining his reputation and wrecking his happiness because you never make the slightest effort to control your rotten passions—
CAROL
[_Rising, trying to control her hysteria_]
How dare you say that—how dare you—
EVELYN
Dare! I’ll say it again and again. Rotten passions! All you live for, all you think of—women of your type can’t exist without men—men—nothing but men all the time—
CAROL
[_Frantically_]
Stop! Stop! You shan’t say any more. [_She gives him a ringing slap on the face. He stands quite still._] Cad! cad! unutterable cad! [_She gives him another slap between each word. He remains motionless. They stand facing each other. CAROL puts her hand to her head._] I think—I think I’m going to be ill.