What is——?

Olive.

I haven’t heard a man swear since I turned you out of Pont Street. [Dreamily, almost inaudibly, as she plays with a cigarette.] Damn! [He looks round at her; she is lost in thought; suddenly she crushes the cigarette, and flings it from her fiercely.] Ah! Theo Fraser smokes!

John.

[Starting up in a rage.] Hah! hah!

[He goes out of the room.

Olive.

[Following him a few steps, penitently.] Oh, John!—— [There is a knock at the upper door.] Yes?

[Quaife enters, with some cards on a salver.]

Quaife.