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KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS 59
henry: I have some printing frames out in the sun. If you don't mind I'll just run out and see to them. He goes out, at the french windows. Edith sits and Louis follows suit. She makes conversation.
edith: Have you been in the neighbourhood long, Mr Mazzini?
louis : A few hours only. I was cycling through the village and felt compelled to stop and make a study or two of the inn. It looked so charming.
edith : It does look charming. But I'm afraid it is by no means an influence for good in the lives of our people here. The landlord is a former coachman of ours. I have spoken to him several times about the amount of drinking that goes on there, but he continues to allow it.
louis : It is, after all, I suppose, his livelihood.
edith : I do not consider that he has the right to make a livelihood by exploiting the weaknesses of his fellow men. The Butler has returned with a tray on which is a decanter and glasses. He brings a glass of sherry to Louis.
louis {taking sherry) : Put as you put it, it does sound deplorable.
edith: It is deplorable. (She rises.) Will you excuse me a moment? She turns away to speak to the Butler who is about to leave. Louis glances after her, then sips his sherry.
louis' voice: I could well understand Henry's visits to the village inn, apart from his stock of refreshments in the dark room. Mrs D'Ascoyne was beautiful but what a prig she was, and what a burden it must be to live in such a constant atmosphere of high moral purpose. I wondered how to ingratiate myself with her and decided to attack on her own ground and with her own weapons.