I’ll go upstairs and bathe my knee, mother.

[Lady Macphail leads him.]

Egidia.

He can walk!

Lady Macphail.

Madam, a Macphail can always walk under any circumstances.

Dowager.

[Reading the telegram she has written.] “If—in—doubt—amputate.”

[Lady Macphail, Macphail, Valentine, Lady Euphemia, Egidia, and the Dowager go out.]

Mrs. Gaylustre.