Dowager.
This is most distressing. [Calling at the open door.] Angèle! Angèle!
Lady Twombley.
[Heard outside.] Why, Dora!
Sir Julian Twombley.
Katherine.
[Lady Twombley enters with Imogen and Lady Euphemia in walking costumes.]
Lady Twombley.
How good of you to come early! [Kissing Egidia.] Egidia, dearest! [To Drumdurris.] Good-morning, Keith. Ah! you’ve brought Fergus to see me! The angel!
[With cries of delight Lady Twombley, Imogen, and Lady Euphemia gather round Sir Julian and the baby.]