HARVEY. [_Imploringly._] Alice, Alice--

MRS. WESTERN. [_Pausing, with her hand on the bell._] I'll let the girl

off, if you'll tell me the truth.

HARVEY. I _have_ told you the truth.

MRS. WESTERN. You persist in this silly falsehood?

HARVEY. It isn't--I tell you it isn't!

MRS. WESTERN. Very well, then.

[_She presses the bell. At that moment the door bursts open, and_

MARTIN _comes in triumphantly, with the bracelet on a salver._

SMITHERS _and_ WILLIAM _are behind him, but do not pass beyond

the threshold._

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