_Tom._
To have found one who could have kept silent!
_Avonia._
[_Remorsefully._] Oh, I could burn myself!
_Tom._
Besides, it isn't true.
_Avonia._
What?
_Tom._
That Rose Trelawny is no longer up to her work.
_Avonia._
[_Sadly._] Oh, Tom!
_Tom._
It isn't the fact, I say!
_Avonia._
Isn't it the fact that ever since Rose returned from Cavendish
Square----?
_Tom._