[_He moves the chairs away._
MAGGIE. [_To Housemaid._] Honest, you saw something between them?
HOUSEMAID. Who?
MAGGIE. Him and her? Mr. Geoffrey and Miss Chester--
HOUSEMAID. _Cheese it!_ they're coming this way!
[_She and the MAID and the BUTLER vanish through the door Right._
[_GEOFFREY and RUTH enter through the double doors quickly at back.
GEOFFREY is a young, good-looking man, but with a weak face. He is of
course very smartly dressed. RUTH is a very serenely beautiful girl,
rather noble in type, but unconscious and unpretending in manner.
They close the doors quickly behind them._
GEOFFREY. We'll not be interrupted here, and I must have a few words
with you before you go.
[_He follows her to the sofa where she sits, and leans over it, with
his arm about her shoulder._
RUTH. Oh, Geof,--Geof, why weren't we married like this?
GEOFFREY. It couldn't be helped, darling!
RUTH. It isn't the big wedding I miss, oh, no, it's only it seemed
sweeter in a church. Why did we have to steal off to Brooklyn, to that
poor, strange little preacher in his stuffy back parlour, and behave as
if we were doing something of which we were ashamed?
GEOFFREY.
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