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It is light again. Man and Rosemary are alone. She is attractively and expensively dressed.
MAN I have come to let you know that I have decided, after long and careful consideration, to make you my wife.
ROSEMARY I am amazed.
MAN I thought you might be, but I have gone into the matter most carefully; I have not only had good reports of you but from my own personal observation I have concluded that you are satisfactory and will therefore be married to me at the beginning of next month.
ROSEMARY (furious but not speechless) If you kneel at my feet and bring your face conveniently near to me I shall condescend to give you the hardest smack on the jaw you or anyone else has had.
MAN Rosemary, don't, I beg of you, do anything so foolish. You know I don't waste words – by the way, did you see to it that Tom disposed of that silly English fellow?
ROSEMARY Are you daring to threaten me? Who do you think –
MAN Oh come; don't waste words. So far from threatening you I have told you we are to marry and the details are being arranged. Threats and love and all those sorts of things are all right amongst the vulgar. Surely you can see it is out of place here?
ROSEMARY Indeed? And is sex also only for the vulgar?
MAN That is nothing to do with us. Of course I shall use you for sexual purposes – I have gone into that and you will do, but don't imagine that I am talking the silly juvenile nonsense of animals like P.A. I got over that many years ago.