) Your
eyelashes
are all wet, Sweet?
Kipling - Poems
G.
(Aside.
) Then Mafflin was right!
They know, and we--we're blind
all of us. (Lightly. ) 'Getting a little beyond our depth, dear, aren't
we? I'll remember, and, if I fail, let me be punished as I deserve.
Mrs. G. There shall be no punishment. We'll start into life together
from here--you and I--and no one else.
Capt. G. And no one else. (A pause.
) Your eyelashes are all wet, Sweet?
Was there ever such a quaint little Absurdity?
Mrs. G. Was there ever such nonsense talked before?
Capt. G. (Knocking the ashes out of his pipe. ) 'Tisn't what we say, it's
what we don't say, that helps. And it's all the profoundest philosophy.
But no one would understand--even if it were put into a book.
Mrs. G. The idea! No--only we ourselves, or people like ourselves--if
there are any people like us.
Capt.
all of us. (Lightly. ) 'Getting a little beyond our depth, dear, aren't
we? I'll remember, and, if I fail, let me be punished as I deserve.
Mrs. G. There shall be no punishment. We'll start into life together
from here--you and I--and no one else.
Capt. G. And no one else. (A pause.
) Your eyelashes are all wet, Sweet?
Was there ever such a quaint little Absurdity?
Mrs. G. Was there ever such nonsense talked before?
Capt. G. (Knocking the ashes out of his pipe. ) 'Tisn't what we say, it's
what we don't say, that helps. And it's all the profoundest philosophy.
But no one would understand--even if it were put into a book.
Mrs. G. The idea! No--only we ourselves, or people like ourselves--if
there are any people like us.
Capt.
