Mrs. Cloys.
[Sitting on the settee.] Muriel. [Mrs. Emptage comes to her.] We have been on bad terms for many years; let us have done with it. I suggest mutual concessions to disposition and temper.
Mrs. Emptage.
[Sitting.] I am sure I have been more than desirous——
Mrs. Cloys.
You have brought up your children abominably; that was always our most serious point of dissension——
Sir Fletcher Portwood.
I may remind you, Harriet, that Muriel’s cheerful method of training her children has received my sympathy and sanction. On the death of the late Mr. Emptage——
Mrs. Emptage.
My poor dear Herbert——