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60 THE CINEMA
The Butler leaves and Edith turns back to Louis.
edith: I'm afraid we can offer you only a simple luncheon, Mr Mazzini.
louis : You are most kind, but I feel I should not intrude.
edith: It is no intrusion.
louis: I'm afraid it is. May I explain?
edith: Please do. They sit.
louis: It was only when your husband told me his name that I realized that I had come by chance into a most embarrassing situation. My mother was a member of the D'Ascoyne family. She married, as they thought, beneath her and from that day they refused to recognize her or my existence {he rises) . I feel, therefore, that although you might in the circumstances hesitate to say so to my face, you and your husband would prefer not to receive me at your table. {He extends his hand.) Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain matters to your husband for me. I shall naturally leave the neighbourhood at once.
edith: Mr Mazzini, please sit down. Louis does soy disguising his relief. She goes on.
edith : You have exhibited the most delicate feelings. I know nothing of the history to which you refer, but I have often felt that the attitude of my husband's family has failed to move with the times, that they think too much of the rights of nobility, and too little of its duties. The very honesty of your behaviour appears to me to prove them wrong. Was Lord Tennyson far from the mark when he wrote : ' Kind Hearts are more than Coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood'? I hope you will stay to luncheon.