She abuses them and cuts them and breaks dates with them and yawns in their faces--and they come back for more.
ALEC: They love it.
CECELIA: They hate it.

She's a--she's a sort of vampire, I think--and she can make girls do what she wants usually--only she hates girls.
ALEC: Personality runs in our family.
CECELIA: (Resignedly) I guess it ran out before it got to me.
ALEC: Does Rosalind behave herself?
CECELIA: Not particularly well.

Oh, she's average--smokes sometimes, drinks punch, frequently kissed--Oh, yes--common knowledge--one of the effects of the war, you know.
(Emerges MRS.

CONNAGE.) MRS.

CONNAGE: Rosalind's almost finished so I can go down and meet your friend.
(ALEC and his mother go out.) ROSALIND: (Outside) Oh, mother-- CECELIA: Mother's gone down.
(And now ROSALIND enters.