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.