H’m! I would have you know, Euphemia, that I have not absolutely broken my pledge to Lady Twombley. I made Harris, the coachman, purchase this. As you drive home drop it out of your carriage window.

[As Lady Euphemia takes the paper from him her eyes fall upon a paragraph.]

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

Oh! do they mean you, uncle?

Sir Julian Twombley.

Without doubt.

Lady Euphemia Vibart.

[Reading.] “The Square Peg!”

Sir Julian Twombley.

Hush! the servant!