"He wants Julia to go down and stay." "Is she going ?" said Lilly.
"She hasn't decided," replied Robert.
"Oh! What's the objection ?" asked Struthers.
"Well, none whatsoever, as far as can be seen, except that she can't make up her mind," replied Robert.
"Julia's got no mind," said Jim rudely.
"Oh! Hear the brotherly verdict!" laughed Julia hurriedly.
"You mean to go down to Dorset alone!" said Struthers.
"Why not ?" replied Robert, answering for her.
"And stay how long ?" "Oh--as long as it lasts," said Robert again.
"Starting with eternity," said Lilly, "and working back to a fortnight." "And what's the matter ?--looks bad in the eyes of the world ?" "Yes--about that.

Afraid of compromising herself--" Lilly looked at them.
"Depends what you take the world to mean.

Do you mean us in this box, or the crew outside there ?" he jerked his head towards the auditorium.
"Do you think, Lilly, that we're the world ?" said Robert ironically.
"Oh, yes, I guess we're shipwrecked in this box, like Robinson Crusoes.
And what we do on our own little island matters to us alone.

As for the infinite crowds of howling savages outside there in the unspeakable, all you've got to do is mind they don't scrap you." "But WON'T they ?" said Struthers.
"Not unless you put your head in their hands," said Lilly.
"I don't know--" said Jim.
But the curtain had risen, they hushed him into silence.
All through the next scene, Julia puzzled herself, as to whether she should go down to the country and live with Scott.

She had carried on a nervous kind of _amour_ with him, based on soul sympathy and emotional excitement.