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nk? ALEC: Yes--nothing queer about him. CECELIA: Money? ALEC: Good Lord--ask him, he used to have a lot, and he's got some income now. (MRS. CONNAGE appears.) MRS. CONNAGE: Alec, of course we're glad to have any friend of yours-- ALEC: You certainly ought to meet Amory. MRS. CONNAGE: Of course, I want to. But I think it's so childish of you to leave a perfectly good home to go and live with two other boys in some impossible apartment. I hope it isn't in order that you can all drink as much as you want. (She pauses.) He'll be a little neglected to-night. This is Rosalind's week, you see. When a girl comes out, she needs _all_ the attention. ROSALIND: (Outside) Well, then, prove it by coming here and hooking me. (MRS. CONNAGE goes.) ALEC: Rosalind hasn't changed a bit. CECELIA: (In a lower tone) She's awfully spoiled. ALEC: She'll meet her match to-night. CECELIA: Who--Mr. Amory Blaine? (ALEC nods.) CECELIA: Well, Rosalind has still to meet the man she can't outdistance. Honestly, Alec, she treats men terribly. She abuses them and cuts them and breaks dates with them and yawns in their faces--and they come back for more. ALEC: They love it. CECELIA: They hate it. She's a--she's a sort of vampire, I think--and she can make girls do what she wants usually--only she hates girls. ALEC: Personality runs in our family. CECELIA: (Resignedly) I guess it ran out before it got to me. ALEC: Does Rosalind behave herself? CECELIA: Not particularly well. Oh, she's average--smokes sometimes, drinks punch, frequently kissed--Oh, yes--common knowledge--one of the effects of the war, you know. (Emerges MRS. CONNAGE.) MRS. CONNAGE: Rosalind's almost finished so I can go down and meet your friend. (ALEC and his mother go out.) ROSALIND: (Outside) Oh, mother-- CECELIA: Mother's gone down. (And now ROSALIND enters. ROSALIND is--utterly ROSALIND. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative. If ROSALIND could be spoiled the process would have been complete by this time, and as a matter of fact, her disposition is not all it should be; she wants what she wants when she wants it and she is prone to make every one around her pretty miserable when she doesn
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