Make a bold plunge, do! The odour of cooking here, to a hungry woman, is maddening.

[Vale softly opens the window and comes into the recess, but remains concealed by the curtain.

Vale.

[To himself.] This is too bad of Lukyn! I’m wet to the skin and frightfully hungry! Who the deuce are these women?

Agatha Posket.

Colonel Lukyn!

Lukyn.

Madam. [Listening.] No crash yet.

Agatha Posket.