Dowager.

[To Lady Twombley.] You see my motive?

Imogen.

[Waiting for Macphail.] Tea is in this room, Sir Colin.

Macphail.

[Looking at Imogen, and then, appealingly, at Lady Macphail.] Come, mother.

[Imogen, Macphail, and Lady Macphail go out.]

Dowager.

[To Lady Twombley, following the others.] He is impressed!

[Sir Julian, in evening dress, enters with a letter in his hand.]