[STEVEN _turns to go, but stops as_ MOLES _shows_ COLEMAN _into the room. The latter is dressed in his uniform of first lieutenant._ DICK. Hello, Steven! Hello, Coast! COAST. We gates! STEVEN. How are you, Dick? Excuse me, I'm in a hurry. You're off to-day? DICK. Yes, I've come to shake hands. STEVEN. Good-by, old man, and good luck--sorry to have to go! Good-by! [_Shakes hands warmly, with feeling._ DICK. Good-by. [STEVEN _goes out Left._ COAST. [_Sitting Right._] Oh, I guess she ain't so different. DICK. Who? COAST. Georgiana, she's _just a woman_! DICK. No, take my word for it, she's not _a_ woman, she's _the_ woman. [_Sits on the piano bench._ COAST. 'Spose she likes money and nice things always about her? DICK. She's always had them,--and always would if I could help give them to her. COAST. Huh, huh! Well--say, Steve's got himself in a devil of a hole! Speculated with his wife's money--and they're broke. DICK. Good God, what do you mean? [_Rises._ COAST. What I say. Steve is one of those good-hearted gulls who's a blame slob on the money market, and he's gone under to the extent of Aunt Laura's and Louise's _spondulix_, that's all. [_He is rather amused._ DICK _goes back of table, puts his hat on it._ DICK. What are they going to do? COAST. Georgiana wants to pony up like a brick and keep the whole lot! DICK. Just like her! COAST. Oh, of course, I'll see Georgiana don't really lose by it in no way in the end. DICK. You _will_? COAST. Why of course! DICK. She isn't going to let Steve speculate with her money, is she? COAST. Can't say. [_A pause._ DICK. Look here, I'd like to help Steve myself, if I thought I could protect Georgiana. I'll let Steve have some money. You needn't say anything to anybody. How much will see him through? COAST. That's real good of you, but I couldn't let outsiders help 'em. DICK. I'm not exactly an outsider; and the truth is, Coast, I'd give anything to have the right to help Georgiana. [_A silence._] Look here. I'm going to ask you a question, straight out! COAST. Fire ahead! [_Looks at_ DICK _with a perfectly blank face._ DICK. Anything between you and Georgiana? COAST. [_After a short pause._] There is-- DICK. Mrs. Carley hinted as much. COAST. [_Unflinchingly._] I'm--er--I'm going to marry Georgiana. [_A pause._ COAST _looks_ DICK _in the eye, then away._ DICK. Congratulate you, Coast! [_Shakes his hand._] She's worth even more than you can give her! COAST. That's right! [COAST _goes out on the balcony and whistles "Congo."_ DICK _walks away and turns his back._ DICK _goes to the mantel and takes up a picture of_ GEORGIANA, _looks at it, takes it out of the frame, and seeing that_ COAST _isn't observing, puts it in his breast pocket. He turns round with a pathetic sort of half-laughing exclamation to_ COAST. DICK. I say, Coast. [COAST _comes in from the balcony._] I've been in love with Georgiana for years. COAST. That don't surprise me!