Miss Moon.

It never gives me any pleasure to hear of people having their limbs crushed.

Miss Huddle.

Or being murdered by tramps.

Miss Moon.

Won't your lordship take a chair? [To Frayne, who has wandered down to the window.] And you, sir?

[The young gentleman, his manicuring being finished, has risen, paid Miss Limbird and departed, followed by Miss Claridge carrying her bowl and towel. The door-gong sounds.

Quex.

Is that she?

Miss Moon.