GEOFFREY. (_He turns_.) Home! I have no home. I have neither children
nor wife. I _keep_ a political opponent.
(ANNYS _starts back with a cry_. _He crosses in front of her and seats
himself at the table_. _The flowers are lying there_; _he throws them
into the waste-paper basket_.)
ANNYS. (_She puts on her cloak_, _moves towards the door_. _Half-way
she pauses_, _makes a movement towards him_. _But he will not see_.
_Then a hard look comes into her eyes_, _and without another word she
goes out_, _leaving the door open_.)
(SIGSBY _is heard moving in the other room_.)
GEOFFREY. (_He is writing_.) Sigsby.
SIGSBY. Hallo!
GEOFFREY. That poster I told young Gordon I wouldn’t sanction, “The
Woman spouting politics, the Man returning to a slattern’s home.”
(SIGSBY _enters_.)
SIGSBY. I have countermanded them.
GEOFFREY. Countermand them again. We shall want a thousand.