[Weakly.] Oh, don’t be so sharp with me! All the way home from the Strand you’d hardly speak a word.

Fraser.

[Sitting on the settee.] I was thinking over what we’d been listening to.

Theophila.

Yes, the things sounded much worse in Court than they did out of it, didn’t they?

Fraser.

[His head bowed.] Awful!

Theophila.

How cruel it was of them to buoy us up by telling us the case was going right for me!

Fraser.