(BOBBINS watches, and starts at every action of VANDYKE’S, throughout the scene.

REBECCA. (aside) I am glad to get out of the room. I’ll go and see if I can find a policeman.

Exit, C. D. to L.

VAN. (with marked politeness) Don’t stand—pray be seated.

(offers BOBBINS a chair, and takes one himself.

AUGUS. (alarmed) You are very kind, sir. (aside) I hope he don’t see that I’m afraid of him.

(they sit, BOBBINS R., VANDYKE BROWN L.

VAN. (after a pause of confusion on both sides) You were observing, I think, that you had called to—to—

AUGUS. (aside) I must mind what I’m about. I musn’t provoke him.