GEORGIANA.  “Losing time!” Am I keeping you from anything?  I’m very sorry!

LOUISE. [Very tenderly, and hiding her emotion.] No, you’re not keeping us, Georgy, we only wanted to see you, that’s all.

GEORGIANA. [Going to her.] Why?

STEVEN. [Also very tenderly.] Do we have to have a reason to want to see you, isn’t that we love you enough?

GEORGIANA.  Yes, but why do you speak to me like this?—­it’s very kind of you—­only—­what does it mean?

[Smiling a little nervously, they hesitate.

LOUISE.  Steve has news for you, Georgy.

GEORGIANA.  I know about it, Coast told me.

STEVEN.  It isn’t that, Georgy.

GEORGIANA.  What is it, then?  How serious you both look.

[She becomes frightened.

STEVEN.  This is good news.

GEORGIANA. Good news!

LOUISE.  Yes.

STEVEN.  The best in the world!

GEORGIANA.  For me?

STEVEN.  For you!

GEORGIANA. [A second’s pause, she speaks then in a low voice.] No, it can’t be!  It can’t be!

STEVEN.  Yes, it is, Georgy!

GEORGIANA.  No!

STEVEN.  Georgy!  It is!

[MOLES enters Left.

MOLES. [With voice full of happy emotion which he cannot disguise.]
Please, sir—­

[He hesitates.

STEVEN.  Show him here, Moles.

[MOLES lowers his head and goes out.

GEORGIANA.  Dick—?

[She looks from STEVEN to LOUISE. They all show her by their faces and movements that it is true.

GEORGIANA. [Whispers.] Dick!

[She stands waiting, breathless. STEVEN steals out with his arm about LOUISE.

GEORGIANA. [Excitedly, to herself.] Come! No, no!  It can’t be true!  It can’t be true!  They killed him, those brutes out there!  You told me so!  Every one believed it!  I believed it!  And so you want me to believe he’s alive!  That he’s here!  In this house, coming into this room—­that I shall see—­

[She stops suddenly, looking up.  The door-knob of the door Left turns.  Every nerve in GEORGIANA’S body grows tense. MOLES opens the door and lets DICK pass in and closes the door behind him.

GEORGIANA. [Cries out.] Dick!

[DICK goes towards her, but stops.  She starts towards him, stops a moment, and they look at each other, unable to speak,—­then she goes on slowly, almost fearfully, till she reaches him.

DICK. [Moving to her.] Georgy!

[He stands before her with both arms bandaged in a sling.

GEORGIANA. [Whispers.] Dick! [Looks him straight in the eyes—­he looks back.  She cries out.] Dick!

[Holding out her arms toward him.