I caught her behind the hedge this evening, in the Italian garden, after you and I had been talking together.

Duchess.

Behind the hedge!

Quex.

She had previously done her best to make an ass of me, while you were dressing for dinner—! [Looking towards the passage-door.] Where do you say her room is?

Duchess.

At the end of that passage. [They rise together, with very little movement.] Oh, but she is in bed, and asleep!

Quex.

Is she?

Duchess.