You also approve his choice?
Duchess.
[Blandly.] Approve? I am scarcely sufficiently intimate with either party to express approval or disapproval.
Frayne.
[Eyeing her askance.] Pardon. I thought you had known Quex for—ah—some years.
Duchess.
Quite superficially. I should describe him rather as a great friend of his Grace.
Lady Owbridge appears on the top of the steps.
Lady Owbridge.