All right.

[Quaife withdraws. John and Olive now speak in whispers.

Olive.

I don’t wish this.

John.

They offered to go; they’d rather go.

Olive.

Have they heard much?

John.

Er—next to nothing; a syllable or two when we were sitting there. That’s why Peter struck up a tune. [Laughing a little wildly.] Ha, ha, ha!