Quex.
[Reproachfully.] Ah, Miss Fullgarney!
Sophy.
She has been in, and I have done you the service I promised.
Quex.
[Calmly.] You have?
Sophy.
Indeed I have, as true as I stand here. [Steadying herself.] But the fact is—the fact is Miss Eden had a purchase to make that she didn't wish the ladies to interfere over, and—and she has run out for ten minutes. If your lordship must know where she is, she's in the Burlington.
Quex.
[Very quietly.] Oh, she has run out for a few minutes?