Probyn.

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

[Lady Euphemia Vibart, a handsome, distinguished-looking, and elegantly dressed girl of about twenty, enters. She scarcely notices Valentine, who bows formally.]

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

No one has returned yet, Brooke?

Brooke Twombley.

Effie, don’t you recollect Mr. White?

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

Oh! how do you do? [She shakes hands with him in an affected manner.] We are distantly related, I remember.

Valentine White.