Judith
Vaguely.
Will you get various rooms ready?
Clara
I shall have to—they can’t sleep in the passage.
Sorel
How we’ve upset Clara.
Judith
It can’t be helped—nothing can be helped. It’s fate—everything that happens is fate. That’s always a great comfort to me.
Clara
More like arrant selfishness.
Judith
You mustn’t be pert, Clara.