EUSTASIA. No, I don’t think there’s anything else, thank you.

NICHOLAS. Well, I call that very unfair. I had one.

LEONARD (asserting his rights as a husband). Oh, did you? Well, in that case, Eustasia, I certainly don’t see why——

LATIMER (to DOMINIC). Two mustard-plasters. We mustn’t grudge his lordship anything.

DOMINIC. Yes, sir.

[He retires.

EUSTASIA (to LEONARD). Now come over here, darling, [150]away from the door. (She leads him to an arm-chair in the corner of the room) Lean on me.

ANNE. Surely one can walk with a cold in the head!

NICHOLAS. No, it’s very dangerous.

LATIMER. Nicholas speaks as an expert.