[Anxiously.] I do hope she realizes what she's doing, Bertram. Sir Timothy could buy them both up, with something to spare.
Bertram.
I agree, my dear mother; but it would have been horribly offensive to us, I mean t'say, to see the name of Ottoline's husband branded upon sides of bacon in the windows of the provision-shops.
Lady Filson.
Oh, disgusting! [Brightening.] How sensibly you look at things, darling!
Bertram.
[Taking up a position before the fireplace.] Whereas George Delacour and Edward Trefusis are undeniably gentlemen—gentlemen by birth and breeding, I mean t'say.
Lady Filson.
Trefusis is connected, through his brother, with the Northcrofts!
Bertram.