Never!

Mrs. Quinton Twelves.

Perhaps you had better not come to tea with me quite so frequently in the future, Claude.

Claude.

You are right; you, and others, must see less of me. [Turning to her.] And yet, Kate, I am not all bad!

Sir Fletcher Portwood enters. He is fifty-one, amiable, pompous, egotistical, foolish.

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

Why didn’t you wait for me, Claude, my boy?

Claude.

Sorry; my brain was reeling.