Mrs. Emptage.

[Pacing the room again.] I can hear them doing it! Bravo, Mrs. Fraser! Eh, girls?

Mrs. Quinton Twelves.

Plucky Mrs. Fraser!

Justina.

How jolly to have been there just then!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

As a matter of fact, I talked with several strangers of a humble rank of life, and hinted that a few cheers—so regrettable and unseemly in a court of law as a rule—I hinted that a few cheers would undoubtedly be justifiable in the present instance, as well as peculiarly agreeable to me. It seems that Babbitt——

[Horton enters with a card.

Mrs. Emptage.