[_Politely._] We needn't keep Marie any longer, at any
rate, need we? You can go, Marie, and you too, Tompson.
[CLARA _and_ MRS. HUNTER _help place the other dresses on_ TOMPSON'S
_arms._
MISS SILLERTON. [_To_ MISS GODESBY, _on the opposite side of the room,
in a lowered voice._] I'll take it; I'm willing to pay that.
MISS GODESBY. Don't you dare interfere! I want the gown, but I know
she'll come down,--if she doesn't, I'll make a bluff at going. Then if
she sticks to her price, I'll come back and pay it.
[_They turn to_ MRS. HUNTER.
MISS SILLERTON. Oh, Mrs. Hunter, may I see my dress just one more
minute?
MRS. HUNTER. Certainly.
[_She and_ CLARA _come back with the dress._
MARIE. [_To_ TOMPSON _by the door at Right._]
_Vite!_ Come! Come! Jordan 'ave stole ze photograph machine of Mees
Clara, and he make now one pigsher of me in ze dress!
[_Smiling mischievously, delighted, she goes out Right._
MISS SILLERTON. Thank you.
[_She leaves her dress._
MRS. HUNTER. Take this too, Tompson.
TOMPSON. Yes, madam.
[MRS. HUNTER _speaks to_ TOMPSON, _aside, and_ CLARA, _near them,
watches the two visitors out of the corner of her eye._
MISS GODESBY. [_Aside to_ MISS SILLERTON.] I'll leave my muff; that'll
be a good excuse to come back.
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