GEORGIANA. Well, it usually costs Steve all he has! But I thought you-- COAST. [_Interrupting._] Miss Georgiana, you see this false nose? GEORGIANA. Yes. COAST. [_Putting it on._] Well, now what do I look like? GEORGIANA. [_Laughing._] I shouldn't like to say! COAST. Exactly! Well, see? That's what I'd be if I believed in tips and "inside information." If a man gives your brother a good tip, let him drop it like hot lead. People with a real good tip ain't giving it away. There's never enough to divide up and go around,--not in this world,--and inside information that gets told to a lamb like your brother is too damned outside information for me! [_He rises and moves away, half in irritation, half in humor._ GEORGIANA. Oh! Oh! COAST. Pardon. GEORGIANA. Are you as rich as people say? COAST. Richer! GEORGIANA. How did you get it? COAST. I started my dough with a mine. GEORGIANA. Why can't you put Steve into a mine? COAST. [_Laughing._] What's the use? he'll lose everything just as quick in Wall Street. GEORGIANA. But I mean a good mine. COAST. [_Coming back to her._] Listen! I worked right in our mine with my father when I was only eight years old! That's why I ain't better educated--I worked for ten years there down in the dirt and muck! GEORGIANA. [_Interrupting._] And silver! COAST. [_Leaning on the back of the chair._] Yes, and silver. [_Laughs._] Father's out there working yet--don't have to now, but he likes it; he ain't comfortable on top of the earth--says there's too much room. If father'd been a man like Mackay, I guess he'd been just as rich as him to-day. GEORGIANA. And still you won't help Steve? COAST. T'ain't business. [_He puts back his chair and leans toward_ GEORGIANA, _hand on table._] If helping him, mind you, would get you, I might take it on. [_Humorously._] I'd pay even the price of Steve to buy you. GEORGIANA. [_Taking the false nose and putting it on._] Well, I'm not for sale. [_Rises._] But I would like to dispose of Steven. COAST. Go on, please take that blame thing off. [_Follows_ GEORGIANA _across the room to the Left._ GEORGIANA. No, I like it! You must understand this about my brother. [_Taking off the nose._] He is the dearest, best fellow in the world! kind-hearted and wouldn't do a thing that wasn't straightforward in business. COAST. But you've got to be tricky if you want to succeed in our business. I don't mind telling you right out between us, I'm tricky! GEORGIANA. I'm sorry to hear it. COAST. Louise was a pretty good liar when she was a kid. She ought to help her husband along a little. GEORGIANA. That's just it! if Steve had the right sort of wife,--but all Louise wants is social position and more money. [_She sits on the hobby horse, amusedly._] COAST. If Louise was like you! [GEORGIANA _puts the nose on quickly and rocks._