TROTTER. [_Also in a lowered voice to_ MISS GODESBY.] Dodo!
[TOMPSON _goes out Right._
[MRS. HUNTER _and_ CLARA _come back._
MISS GODESBY. You really couldn't take less than three hundred?
MRS. HUNTER. I wish I could if only for your own sake; but I really
couldn't in justice to myself.
MISS GODESBY. I'm very sorry--and I'm afraid we must be going now.
MRS. HUNTER. [_Not believing they will go._] Oh, must you? Well, it was
very kind of you to come.
[MISS GODESBY _leaves her muff upon the table at the Left._
MISS SILLERTON. [_Shakes hands with_ MRS. HUNTER.] Good-by.
[_She goes on to_ CLARA.
[MISS GODESBY _comes to shake hands with_ MRS. HUNTER.
MRS. HUNTER. I think you're making a mistake not to take the dress,
Julia dear.
MISS GODESBY. Perhaps, but I really can't go more than two hundred and
fifty.
[MRS. HUNTER _looks surreptitiously at_ CLARA, _who slyly shakes her
head to her mother._
MRS. HUNTER. Oh, quite impossible!
MISS GODESBY. Good-by.
MRS. HUNTER. Good-by.
MISS GODESBY. Good-by, Clara.
MRS. HUNTER. [_Frightened._] Would you like to see the dress off?
MISS GODESBY. Oh, my dear, it was as _off_ as I would ever like to see
it. Good-by.
MRS. HUNTER. Good-by. [MISS SILLERTON _and_ MISS GODESBY _get to doorway
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