LADY KITTY. What are you going to say to him? ELIZABETH. [_Desperately._] Please don't ask me questions. I'm so frightfully unhappy. LADY KITTY. My poor child! ELIZABETH. Oh, isn't life rotten? Why can't one be happy without making other people unhappy? LADY KITTY. I wish I knew how to help you. I'm simply devoted to you. [_She hunts about in her mind for something to do or say._] Would you like my lip-stick? ELIZABETH. [_Smiling through her tears._] Thanks. I never use one. LADY KITTY. Oh, but just try. It's such a comfort when you're in trouble. [_Enter PORTEOUS and TEDDIE._ PORTEOUS. I brought him. He said he'd be damned if he'd come. LADY KITTY. When a lady sent for him? Are these the manners of the young men of to-day? TEDDIE. When you've been solemnly kicked out of a house once I think it seems rather pushing to come back again as though nothing had happened. ELIZABETH. Teddie, I want you to be serious. TEDDIE. Darling, I had such a rotten dinner at that pub. If you ask me to be serious on the top of that I shall cry. ELIZABETH. Don't be idiotic, Teddie. [_Her voice faltering._] I'm so utterly wretched. [_He looks at her for a moment gravely._ TEDDIE. What is it? ELIZABETH. I can't come away with you, Teddie. TEDDIE. Why not? ELIZABETH. [_Looking away in embarrassment._] I don't love you enough. TEDDIE. Fiddle! ELIZABETH. [_With a flash of anger._] Don't say "Fiddle" to me. TEDDIE. I shall say exactly what I like to you. ELIZABETH. I won't be bullied. TEDDIE. Now look here, Elizabeth, you know perfectly well that I'm in love with you, and I know perfectly well that you're in love with me. So what are you talking nonsense for? ELIZABETH. [_Her voice breaking._] I can't say it if you're cross with me. TEDDIE. [_Smiling very tenderly._] I'm not cross with you, silly. ELIZABETH. It's harder still when you're being rather an owl. TEDDIE. [_With a chuckle._] Am I mistaken in thinking you're not very easy to please? ELIZABETH. Oh, it's monstrous. I was all wrought up and ready to do anything, and now you've thoroughly put me out. I feel like a great big fat balloon that some one has put a long pin into. [_With a sudden look at him._] Have you done it on purpose? TEDDIE. Upon my soul I don't know what you're talking about. ELIZABETH. I wonder if you're really much cleverer than I think you are. TEDDIE. [_Taking her hands and making her sit down._] Now tell me exactly what you want to say. By the way, do you want Lady Kitty and Lord Porteous to be here? ELIZABETH. Yes. LADY KITTY. Elizabeth asked us to stay. TEDDIE. Oh, I don't mind, bless you. I only thought you might feel rather in the way. LADY KITTY. [_Frigidly._] A gentlewoman never feels in the way, Mr. Luton. TEDDIE. Won't you call me Teddie? Everybody does, you know. [_LADY KITTY tries to give him a withering look, but she finds it very difficult to prevent herself from smiling. TEDDIE strokes ELIZABETH'S hands. She draws them away._