to put up with that. I can stand being badly treated: I'm no
baby, and can take care of myself with anybody. And of course I
can stand being well treated. But the thing I can't stand is
being unexpectedly treated, It's outside my scheme of life. So
come now! you've got to behave naturally and straightforwardly
with me. You can leave husband and child, home, friends, and
country, for my sake, and come with me to some southern isle--or
say South America--where we can be all in all to one another. Or
you can tell your husband and let him jolly well punch my head if
he can. But I'm damned if I'm going to stand any eccentricity.
It's not respectable.

GREGORY [coming in from the terrace and advancing with dignity to
his wife's end of the chesterfield]. Will you have the goodness,
sir, in addressing this lady, to keep your temper and refrain
from using profane language?

MRS. LUNN [rising, delighted] Gregory! Darling [she enfolds him
in a copious embrace]!

JUNO [rising] You make love to another man to my face!

MRS. LUNN. Why, he's my husband.

JUNO. That takes away the last rag of excuse for such conduct. A
nice world it would be if married people were to carry on their
endearments before everybody!

GREGORY. This is ridiculous. What the devil business is it of
yours what passes between my wife and myself? You're not her