--As often as possible!

MISS PAYSLEY (_aside_)--Of course you never lose a chance of talking
about yourself! (_Aloud._) You've a very unusual hand. You're two or
three people, one at the top of the other.

MR. JARVIS (_plaintively_)--One would think I were a ham sandwich.

MISS PAYSLEY (_calmly_)--A layer cake, I should put it.

MR. JARVIS (_aside_)--You can't feaze her. She's really prettier than
Mrs. Orton. (_Aloud._) What are my many characters? It's interesting.
(_Aside._) Now for the "You know the higher but follow the lower."

MISS PAYSLEY--Fundamentally, beside your love of strength, you are
simple, kindly, unaffected. You would be happy married to a girl
kindly and unaffected like yourself. (_Aside._) I mustn't give too
pointed a description of Millicent.

MR. JARVIS--The country---- Milking time? Love in a cottage? Baby's
first step?

MISS PAYSLEY--Laugh, if you like, but that's really what you like, and
what would make you happy! That's the sort of atmosphere you do your
best work in. You need for a wife some one not too self-assertive, and
who believes in you. You need a certain sort of appreciation to work
well--and wanting appreciation, you put up with flattery.

MR. JARVIS--I just live on flattery.

MISS PAYSLEY (_with conviction_)--You drink it in by the pailful! You
don't mind if it's put on with a butter knife!

MR. JARVIS (_who has gotten more and more interested_)--What becomes
of my strength then?

MISS PAYSLEY--Oh, you only live on flattery when you are starved for
legitimate appreciation. (_Aside._) I think I got out of that rather
neatly. (_Aloud._) You are really idealistic, with a good deal of
sentiment, and, selfish as you are, you have a heart.

MR. JARVIS (_gratefully_)--Thank you for the heart.

MISS PAYSLEY--You like to have people think you are cynical and
light-minded. You only show your real self to a few people.

MR. JARVIS--He sounds to me like a prig and a bore.

MISS PAYSLEY (_with more warmth than she has shown yet_)--He's a
charming and delightful person. It's the man of the world with
the-smile-that-won't-come-off that's the bore!

MR. JARVIS--Have you found me so?

MISS PAYSLEY (_steadily_)--Not when I've read between the lines.

MR. JARVIS (_looking at Miss Paysley searchingly_)---I really think
you're honest.

MISS PAYSLEY (_returning his look_)--What did you think I came out
here for?

MR. JARVIS (_still looking into Miss Paysley's eyes_)--Apparently