[_He wipes his dress with a large silk pocket handkerchief._
LEE TAI. You forget sometimes the manners that were taught you at that elegant school for young ladies in England.
DAISY. I suppose you've come to crow over me. Well, crow.
LEE TAI. I told you that I thought I should not have to wait very long.
DAISY. [_Scornfully._] You fool. Do you think it's finished?
LEE TAI. Did I not tell you that the white man's love was weak and vacillating?
DAISY. He's going away for four months. Do you think that frightens me? He's loved me for ten years. I've loved him for ten years. Do you think he can forget me in four months? He'll come back.
DAISY. Yes, yes, yes. And when he comes it'll be for good. He'll hunger for me as he hungered before. He'll forget his scruples, his remorse, his stupid duties, because he'll only remember me.
LEE TAI. [_Very quietly._] He's going to be married to Miss Sylvia Knox.
[DAISY _springs at him and seizes him by the throat_.
DAISY. That's a lie. That's a lie. Take it back. You pig.
[_He takes her hands and drags them away from his throat. He holds her fast._
LEE TAI. Ask your mother. She knows. The Chinese all know.
DAISY. [_Calling._] Amah, amah. It's a lie. How dare you?
LEE TAI. He told you he was going to an official dinner, but he didn't tell you that as soon as he could get away he was going to play bridge at the Knoxes'. Pity you don't play. They might have asked you too.
DAISY. [_Snatching her hands away._] Let me go, you fool. [_To the_ AMAH.] He says George Conway is engaged to Harold Knox's sister. It's not true.
AMAH. I no sabe. George's boy say so. Knox the night before last at the club, he say to his friend, George Conway and my sister, they going to make a match of it.
[_A horrible change comes over_ DAISY'S _face as all its features become distorted with rage and jealousy_.
[_She stares in front of her, hatred, anger, and mortification seething in her heart. Then she gives a cruel malicious chuckle. She goes quickly to the Korean chest and flings it open. She takes out a parcel of letters and crossing back swiftly to_ LEE TAI _thrusts them in his hands_.
DAISY. They're the letters he wrote me. Let them come into Harry's hands.
DAISY. So that Harry may know everything.