Quex.

Heard anything?

Sophy.

[Laughing maliciously.] Ha, ha, ha! I heard her Grace say, "to-night"—[faintly mimicking the Duchess] "to-night!" [With a curl of the lip.] That was enough for me.

Quex.

Quite so. You told a deliberate lie, then, when I questioned you?

Sophy.

Yes.

Quex.

Earlier in the evening, that manicure game of yours—nothing but a damned cunning trick, eh?