if Connie comes here to-night, do you? After all, she's your sister, and it would be doing her a kindness."
Millie: "Gordon is quite right, Noel. There is no reason why we should inflict our family skeleton on Helen. If Connie is an unhappy woman, it's entirely her own fault. She has forfeited the right to be with decent people. Don't you agree with me, John?"
Mr. Pendleton (unexpectedly): "I think, my dear, that if we can help Connie, we ought to do so. I feel she has a claim upon us, and as Christian people we have no right to ignore it. Is isn't as though the children were growing up; and after all, Gordon, Helen is marrying into our family."
Noel: "Good for you, dad!"
Gordon: "Let her come by all means. Helen and I will dine here another night."
Millie: "It's very tiresome of you, Noel, to upset everything like this. And while we're on the subject of Aunt Connie, I want to say that I don't mind your being polite to her, but I do not like your going about with her so much. If you had to ask her here, some other night would have done as well. I'm certain your friend Major Crosby won't want to meet her."
