Dowager.
Keith and Egidia approach you at this early hour at my instigation. I have a painful motive.
Sir Julian Twombley.
Oh, dear me!
[Egidia enters, dressed in fashionable walking costume, her face pale and troubled.]
Egidia.
[Sadly.] Sir Julian.
Sir Julian Twombley.
My dear Egidia, there is nothing amiss, I hope?
Egidia.