Claude.

Well, when I am turning various careers over in my mind——

Mrs. Cloys.

Enough, Claude——!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

[Coming down the steps.] Why, when I was five years younger than he I had already applied my lever to the mountain. I first saw light in ’forty-four——

Olive.

[To John.] Oh——!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

’Forty-four; an easily remembered date—two fours. And what was I doing at his age?