You know what
will happen--what the newspapers will do if I take all these ladies and
gentlemen down town. In the end this way will be the best for you and
your friends. Well, how about it?
CROSBY (L.C.). Thank you. I think you'd better regard this house as your
own for the present.
DONOHUE (C.). All right. If you don't mind I'll use this room as a
headquarters for the present.
CROSBY. I have already told you to use this house as your own.
DONOHUE. Thank you. Good evening.
CROSBY (_with a laugh_). I'm dismissed?
DONOHUE. You're dismissed. (CROSBY _walks toward door_ L.) Why did Wales
object to the engagement of your son and Helen O'Neill?
CROSBY (_turns to_ DONOHUE). Who told you that? (_Moving a few steps._)
DONOHUE. It doesn't matter. I know that he did. Why?
CROSBY (_turning front_). I can't talk about it.
DONOHUE (C.). All right. You're the best judge of that. Only I'm
attaching a great deal of importance to this fact. If I'm unduly
emphasizing its value, don't you think you'd better set me straight
about it?
CROSBY. What possible bearing can it have on--
DONOHUE. Motive, my dear sir, motive.
CROSBY. Come now. You can't think that this girl killed Wales because
she heard him ask us to wait before we sanctioned her engagement to my
son.
DONOHUE.
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