NICHOLAS (to ANNE). I say, do you really think I ought to stay?

ANNE. Please, Mr. Nicholas, I want you to stay.

NICHOLAS. Righto! then I’ll stay.

LATIMER (over EUSTASIA’S shoulder). A hundred and nine.

LEONARD (putting his head round the screen). I say, what ought it to be?

NICHOLAS. Ninety-eight.

LEONARD. Good Lord! I’m dying!

EUSTASIA. It’s just ninety-nine. A little over normal, Leonard, but nothing to matter.

LATIMER. Ninety-nine—so it is. I should never have forgiven myself if it had been a hundred and nine.

NICHOLAS (coming up to LATIMER). It’s all right, I’m going to.