[In a rigid attitude.] It's cowardly of me perhaps, but I almost wish I had told Sir Timothy—a little more——
Lady Filson.
Cowardly?
Ottoline.
So that he might have taken the edge off the announcement I'm going to make—and spared me——
Sir Randle.
The edge——?
Lady Filson.
Spared you—? [Staring at Ottoline.] Ottoline, what on earth——!
Ottoline.