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.