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START: Leo (as they reach the bottom of the stairs): Good-morning, Ernest!
Ernest (flabbergasted) : God bless my soul!
Otto (kissing him): He will, Ernest. He couldn't fail to!
Leo (also kissing him) : Dear little Ernest !
Ernest: Where — where in heaven's name have you come from?
[... …]
END: Leo [...] And although she may have worked hard, and although her life is so fully occupied, she is far from being contented. We saw her last night and we know.
Otto: She could never be contented without us, because she belongs to us just as much as we belong to her.
Ernest: She ran away from you.
Leo: She'll come back.
Noel Coward. Design for Living. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1933. pp.125-129
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