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.]