LEONARD. Have you any money about you, mother?

MRS. TIMBRELL. [To EDGAR.] Give it to him.

LEONARD. Mother will repay you out of the housekeeping. [EDGAR fumbles in his pocket.] Look here. Make it two pounds. Mary and I don’t often have a treat together. It’s a special occasion. We may as well do it handsome for once. What about the Savoy and a music-hall, Mary? You look the part fine. [His spirits are obviously rising.]

MARY. I wonder if I’d not better go home.

MRS. TIMBRELL. Go and enjoy yourself, my dear.

[EDGAR hands money to LEONARD who looks at it.]

LEONARD. Well, I’m damned. One pound ten.

EDGAR. Quite enough, too.

LEONARD. It’s not that I’m thinking of. It’s the extraordinary meanness of your character.

[Enter ADA.]