The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

Ottoline.

Sir Tim!

Philip.

[Shutting the outer door—breathing freely.] Kind of Sir Timothy to look me up, isn't it?

Ottoline.

[To Sir Timothy.] Vous êtes un vaurien! When did you return?

Sir Timothy.

[Who has flung his cigarette into the grate—crestfallen.] The day before yesterday.

Ottoline.

Then I mustn't scold you for not having been to see us yet. [Wonderingly.] You find time to call on Mr. Mackworth, though!