d she'd followed you over
here!

AUSTIN. Absolutely false, _both_ your suppositions!

JINNY. Oh, of course you'd protect her; you're a gentleman! But if I
_thought_ you _knew_ she was coming over--

AUSTIN. Jinny! Jinny! How _can_ you have such a thought?

JINNY. Well, why didn't you tell me when you thought you saw her a
little while ago?

AUSTIN. Oh--

JINNY. Oh, it's very easy to say "Oh!" [_Imitating him._] but _why
didn't you_?

AUSTIN. I told you I didn't think who it was; I only thought something
familiar flashed across my eyes. Jinny darling, this is sheer madness on
your part, letting yourself go like this. It has no reason, it has no
excuse! Ask your own heart, and your own mind, if in speaking to _me_ as
you have, you haven't done me at least an injustice and my love for you
a _little_ wrong.

JINNY. Well, I'm sure _she's_ in love with you, anyway.

AUSTIN. No, she isn't! And it's disgraceful of you to say so! I know she
isn't--

JINNY. How do you know she isn't?

AUSTIN. There's no question of it. I'm sure of it! You mustn't think,
dear, that because _you_ love me, everybody does--you idealize me!

[_Smiling apologetically._

JINNY. Oh, you're so modest you don't see! but I do--on the steamer, in
the hotels, everywhere we go, always, all the women admire you awfully!
I see it!

AUSTIN. [_Laughing._] What utter nonsense! [_Taking her into his arms._]
You've got something in your _eyes_!

JINNY. Only tears!

AUSTIN. No, something else,--something _green_.

JINNY. [_Laughs through her tears._] Somebody's told you my old
nickname!

AUSTIN. What?

JINNY. [_Laughs and is a little embarrassed._] The girl with the green
eyes.

AUSTIN. Ahem!--

JINNY. Well, I don't care if it is appropriate, I can't help it.

[_Slipping from his arms._

AUSTIN. You must--or it will threaten our happiness if you let yourself
be carried away by jealousy for no earthly reason outside of your dear,
little imagination, like you have this time--

[_Interrupted._

JINNY. You honestly don't think she cares for you?

AUSTIN. Not a bit!

JINNY. But what was it you were so serious about--what _is_ between you?

AUSTIN. She is in a little trouble, and I happen to know about it.

JINNY. How?

AUSTIN. [_After a second's hesitation._] That you mustn't ask me; it was
not from her I knew of it.

JINNY. Truly?

AUSTIN. Truly.

JINNY. I don't care, she hadn't any business to go to you! I should
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