[Intercepting him.] Claude, I dare you to leave the house!

[Sir Fletcher also moves towards the door.

Mrs. Emptage.

[Stopping him.] Fletcher, you mustn’t!

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

Muriel, I distinctly prefer not to meet——

Mrs. Emptage.

But I must have[have] every support; I am unequal to it otherwise. Who will fetch her upstairs? Fletcher, dear!——

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

In your establishment! Singularly inappropriate!