[To Angèle.] All right. [Fondly to the infant.] My soldier boy! [Angèle advances to Drumdurris. He produces a small toy gun and a little drum from a box he carries and hands them to Angèle.] Don’t let Lady Drumdurris discover these.

Angèle.

No.

Earl of Drumdurris.

Above all, let the drum be muffled.

Angèle.

Yees, milord.

[Egidia enters.]

Earl of Drumdurris.

I expect some small cannon by the evening post. Go.