LADY FLO: Nevertheless, I assure you they lead a cat-and-dog existence.
SIR W.: Oh, dear, dear! Is that so?
LADY FLO: Why, of course! You saw them quarrelling yourself. But still I
have hopes we may be able to arrange matters a little better for them.
Who knows but what we may see them re-united before we leave this house?
SIR W.: We will do our best to help them, poor young things!
LADY FLO: Yes! Poor young things!
SIR W.: And I've no doubt we shall succeed.
LADY FLO: At the same time, it seems to me as if the abyss between them
_may_ widen.
SIR W.: That may be so. The abyss _may_ widen! (_Indicates an imaginary
abyss, at which LADY FLO shakes her head_).