Sir Fletcher Portwood.

Heaven has blessed you with no offspring.

Mrs. Emptage.

And the world isn’t all deans, and canons, and bishops and things——

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

A department of society you were thrown headlong into——

Mrs. Emptage.

By the merest chance, as you well know——

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

Without, I fear, possessing every qualification for the—ah—the exalted station which—which——