WILLIAM (indignantly). An apology!
ISOBEL. There is something I have to tell you all. Will you please listen, all of you? Won’t you sit down, William? (They sit down.)
MARION. What is it, dear?
WILLIAM. You’ve been very mysterious these last few days.
ISOBEL. I didn’t want to say anything until he had [226]been buried. I shall not be mysterious now; I shall be only too plain.
SEPTIMA (to OLIVER). I say, what’s up?
(OLIVER shrugs his shoulders.)
WILLIAM. Well?
ISOBEL. I told you that Father didn’t want to be buried in the Abbey, not because he had said so, but because it was quite impossible that he should be buried in the Abbey.
WILLIAM. Impossible!