_] _What is?_
RUTH. Jinny!
[_Rising._
AUSTIN. I didn't hear you, Jinny!
JINNY. No, you both seemed so absorbed.
RUTH. [_Going to JINNY._] I'm so glad to see you.
[_Kisses her, but JINNY only gives her her cheek and that rather
unwillingly; she is looking all the time at her husband._
JINNY. Thank you, I've just left the Cullinghams. They sent word to you
they were going and would wait for you outside.
RUTH. Oh, then, I mustn't keep them waiting. We'll all meet at dinner
to-night, won't we? Good-by--good-by.
[_With a grateful look at AUSTIN, she goes out Right._
JINNY. [_Watches her go; then turns to AUSTIN._] That wasn't true, what
I told her--I haven't seen the Cullinghams, and I don't know where they
are, and what's more, I don't care!
AUSTIN. What do you mean?
JINNY. [_Beginning by degrees to lose control of herself._] What did
_she_ mean by _following you_ to Rome?
AUSTIN. Jinny!
JINNY. Oh, don't try to deny it; that'll only make me suspect _you_!
AUSTIN. My dear girl, you don't know what you're saying!
JINNY. She's ill, they say at home! Yes, and they don't know what's the
matter with her, do they? No! But I can tell them! She's in love with
another woman's husband!
AUSTIN.
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