Brooke Twombley.

Bosh! Look out, here’s pa! He seems awfully mumpish. Come on.

[He takes Valentine out. Directly they are gone Lady Euphemia re-enters with Sir Julian Twombley, an aristocratic but rather weak-looking man of about fifty-five, wearing his Ministerial uniform.]

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

Are you pleased to get back, uncle?

Sir Julian Twombley.

[Emphatically.] Yes.

[She places him in the arm-chair. He sinks into it with a sigh.]

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

How is your neuralgia?