[Agitatedly.] I can’t hear you. [Taking the letter from Justina.] Let me see it.

Justina.

What shall we do? We must do something. Uncle!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

[Confused.] We must certainly do something, at once. Er—it is her wedding-ring, I suppose?

Justina.

[Impatiently.] Oh——! Aunt!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

[Encountering Claude.] Don’t stand there, Claude, looking precisely like an owl!

Mrs. Cloys.