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.]