I know you didn’t. My motive is this. She has just brought her boy to London.

Lady Twombley.

Is he the great man in the kilt I saw holding on to her lappets?

Dowager.

Yes.

Lady Twombley.

He’s thirty, if he’s an hour.

Dowager.

He’s more. But he is a fine example of the grand simplicity that exists in many Scottish families. Proprietor of eighty thousand acres, head of a great clan, Colin Macphail of Ballocheevin remains a child attached to his mother.

Lady Twombley.