Mrs. Cloys.

Be quiet, Claude, please!

Olive.

[Rising and going to John.] John, really——

John.

[Hotly.] Look here, Emptage, you’re a boy—at any rate, a very young man——!

Claude.

I am a truly unfortunate young man. A blight has been cast upon my name at the very outset of my career——

John.

[Bluntly.] What career?