The Benefit of the Doubt; a Comedy in Three Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

Regret——?

[Sir Fletcher brings tea to Mrs. Emptage; Claude brings tea to Fraser, then returns to the tea-table.

Mrs. Emptage.

Regret at finding himself made the—the thingamy—the vehicle—for such a malicious attack on Theo’s character—the poor child.

Fraser.

[With an effort.] No; no regret was expressed.

Mrs. Emptage.

Not by the judge either?

Fraser.

The judge!