Your boy is five months old, isn’t he?

Egidia.

Fergus is precisely five months.

Lady Twombley.

Well, there are two-and-twenty more teeth to come yet, you know.

Egidia.

Yes, I am schooling myself into that conviction. I am naturally, I hope, a woman of more than ordinary courage.

[Probyn appears at the entrance.]

Probyn.

Lord Drumdurris.