The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

Bertram.

My sister, Madame de Chaumié——

Dunning.

[To Ottoline.] Evening.

Bertram.

Mr. Roope—Mr. Mackworth——

Dunning.

[To them.] Evening.

[Sir Randle, Lady Filson, and Roope, looking at Dunning out of the corners of their eyes, acknowledge the introduction by a slight movement. Philip nods unpleasantly. Ottoline, with a stony countenance, also eyes Dunning askance, and gives the barest possible inclination of her head on being named.

Bertram.