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A well-to-do family cannot be civil to each other in front of their weekend guests.

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Act III

Judith
Don’t get cross, dear.
David
Why can’t you keep quiet, Simon, or go away!
Simon
Sorry, Father.
David
Well, don’t interrupt again.⁠ ⁠… “… gay painted butterflies; the streets were thronged with hurrying vehicles, the thin peek-peek of taxi-hooters⁠—”
Reading.
Sorel
I love “peek-peek.”
David
Ignoring her.
“⁠—seemed to merge in with the other vivid noises weaving a vast pattern of sound which was Paris. Jane Sefton, in her scarlet Hispano, swept out of the Rue St.St.-Honoré into the Place de la Concorde⁠—”
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