Sir Randle.
[Walking about on the extreme right.] Amazing!
Ottoline.
Why grotesque; why amazing? [Sitting in the low-backed arm-chair.] All that is amazing about it is that Philip should lack the superior courage which enables a man, in special circumstances, to sink his pride and ignore ill-natured comments.
Philip.
[To Lady Filson.] At any rate, this is the arrangement that Ottoline and I have entered into; and I suggest, with every respect, that you and Sir Randle should raise no obstacle to my seeing her under your roof occasionally.
Lady Filson.
As being preferable to hole-and-corner meetings in friends' houses——!
Ottoline.
[Coolly.] Or under lamp-posts in the streets—yes, mother.