Thank you. And Lady Twombley might take an extra sunshade.

[Melton goes out. The Dowager closes the door carefully after him.]

Sir Julian Twombley.

[Reading.] “I can conceive no position more agreeable to a Minister of the Crown than that which——”

Dowager.

Julian!

Sir Julian Twombley.

Dora?

Dowager.

You wonder why I am with you at this early hour. I need hardly say I have a motive.