Sir Fletcher Portwood.
I surmise that the judgment of my friend Sir William was very strongly worded, and I daresay an expression of regret followed from Mrs. Allingham’s counsel. But I had quitted the Court, you know——
Mrs. Emptage.
Oh, yes; Theo wrote you a note——
Sir Fletcher Portwood.
But you are losing my anecdote. It appears that a man of the name of Babbitt—— One thing, Muriel, I will stake my reputation upon.
Mrs. Emptage.
[Peeping out at the side of the window blind.] What’s that?
Sir Fletcher Portwood.
That the public applauded the decision roundly.