Robert was in love with you six weeks ago.
[MADELINE _kisses her._
KERCHIVAL. _I've_ made a discovery, too, Bob.
MADELINE. _I've_ got something to say to _you_, Gertrude.
KERCHIVAL. I'm in love with _your_ sister.
ELLINGHAM. [_Astonished._] You are?
MADELINE. Kerchival has been in love with you for the last three
months. [GERTRUDE _offers her lips--they kiss._
KERCHIVAL. I fell in love with her the day before yesterday. [_The two
gentlemen grasp each other's hand warmly._
ELLINGHAM. We understand each other, Kerchival. [_He turns up centre,
and stops at door._] Miss Madeline, you said just now that you wished
to watch the forts. Would you like to walk down to the shore?
MADELINE. Yes! [_Rising and going up to him. He takes one of her hands
in his own and looks at her earnestly._
ELLINGHAM. This will be the last day that we shall be together for the
present. But we shall meet again--sometime--if we both live.
MADELINE. If we both live! You mean--if _you_ live: You must go into
this dreadful war, if it comes.
ELLINGHAM. Yes, Madeline, I must. Come, let us watch for our fate.
[_Exeunt on veranda._
KERCHIVAL.
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