Egidia.
[To Drumdurris.] I was loth to credit you with such treachery.
Dowager.
Name some convenient hour to disagree this afternoon. I will willingly be present.
Egidia.
I have long suspected this conspiracy to anticipate my son’s mature judgment. Keith, there is a gulf between us which can never be bridged over.
[Egidia joins the others.]
Earl of Drumdurris.
Mother, my life is wasted.
[Valentine, roughly dressed in cords and gaiters, enters, followed by Brooke.]