But Miss Granger-Simpson under no condition whatever.
[Sweeps out haughtily.]
[PIKE closes the doors behind her, touches an electric button over the
mantel, then sits at desk and writes hurriedly. Knock at upper doors.]
PIKE. Come in!
[Enter MARIANO.]
PIKE. Mariano, I want you to take this note to Miss Simpson.
[Quickly enclosing note in envelope and addressing it.]
MARIANO. To Mees Granger-Seempson?
PIKE. Do you know where she is?
MARIANO. She walks on the terrace alone.
PIKE. Give it to her yourself--to no one else--[emphatically]--and do it
now.
[Gives him the note.]
MARIANO. At once, sir!
[Going.]
PIKE. Hurry!
[Almost pushes him out of the upper doors and closes them. He goes
quickly to the door on the right, opens it, and calls.]
Ivanoff!
[IVANOFF opens the door and comes out apprehensively.]
IVANOFF [as he enters]. Have they come?
PIKE. Not yet! Ivanoff, you prayed to see your wife and your friend
Glenwood before you went back to Siberia.
IVANOFF [falling back with a cry]. Ah!
PIKE. If that prayer is answered through me, will you promise to
remember that it's my fight?
IVANOFF. Ah! it is impossible--you wish to play with me!
PIKE. Do I look playful?
[A bugle sounds sharply outside the window.]
IVANOFF [wildly].
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