Lady Twombley.

[To Macphail.] Pray sit down. You must be fatigued with last night’s dance.

Lady Macphail.

No Macphail is ever fatigued. But the poor lad feels like a caged eagle in the dress of the South.

Lady Twombley.

I am sure it is—most becoming.

Lady Macphail.

Sit, lad. [Macphail sits, hitching up his trousers unhappily.] You know the object of our visit, Sir Julian?

Sir Julian Twombley.

Lady Drumdurris has hinted——