Who is coming?

Ottoline.

[Sitting at the writing-table and, her elbows on the table, supporting her chin on her fists.] Mr. Mackworth.

Lady Filson.

[After a pause.] Mackworth?

Ottoline.

Philip Mackworth.

Lady Filson.

[Dully.] Isn't he the journalist man you—you carried on with once, in Paris?

Ottoline.