Your father's
and my troubles were never very big because we _shared_ the curse, so we
knew how to sympathize with each other!
JINNY. What an awful thing it is!
MRS. TILLMAN. Yes, my dear child. Jealousy has no saving grace, and it
only destroys what is always most precious to you. Jinny, don't let it
destroy _your best_ happiness!
JINNY. Mother, if it _should_, I'd kill myself!
MRS. TILLMAN. [_Shocked, but quite disbelieving her._] My dear!
[_MAGGIE enters Right._
MAGGIE. Mr. Tillman is downstairs, madam.
MRS. TILLMAN. Tell him to come up.
MAGGIE. Yes, madam.
[_She goes out Right._
JINNY. Don't tell father anything before me.
MRS. TILLMAN. I don't know that I shall tell him at all; he would only
advise more cigars!
[_TILLMAN enters Right._
[_MRS. TILLMAN sits on the sofa at Left._
TILLMAN. Are you here?
JINNY. [_Going to meet him._] We are, father dear, and your presence
_almost_ completes us. [_Kisses him._] I say _almost_, because Jack
hasn't come up town yet, and Geoffrey's heartless enough to stay on
fishing at Cape Cod!
TILLMAN.
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