John.
[Resuming.] “I have left my husband. He turned against me at the end and crushed my one hope of being able to whitewash myself.” The cur! [Resuming.] “Am off to Paris the first thing in the morning. Very likely this is the last chance you will ever have of a word with your poor little friend, Theo.” [To Sir Fletcher.] Sir Fletcher, I congratulate you on finding your niece; please tell her that it is impossible for me to grant her request.
Olive.
[Calmly.] Oh, but wait. [Rising.] Surely it would be rather uncivil to refuse what Mrs. Fraser asks.
Mrs. Cloys.
[Rising.] I can be trusted to explain——
Olive.
But she is apparently in need of some business service which my husband can render her.
Mrs. Cloys.
Now that she is again in the hands of her relatives there can be no necessity for troubling Mr. Allingham.