[EDGAR enters.]

EDGAR. Aren’t you coming, mother? It’s most awkward. There’ll be an awful row.

MRS. TIMBRELL. Yes. Edgar, is it any use their coming? Mr. Pendleton was going to see whether—

EDGAR. I don’t think it’s the slightest use. He’s boiling over.

MARY. Oh! let us go.

LEONARD. Come on. But look here. It’s no use our going home. Edgar, lend us a sovereign.

EDGAR. You’d condescend to borrow from me, then?

LEONARD. My dear fellow you don’t seem to understand that I’m magnanimous. [EDGAR laughs.] You think that’s a joke. You never see my jokes.

EDGAR. I can’t stay.