Why doesn’t he give me something to eat?

[There is a clatter of knives and forks heard from the other room, then a burst of laughter from Cis.

Agatha Posket.

[Starting.] Charley, hark! How strange!

Charlotte.

Very. This bread is beautiful.

[Cis is heard singing the chorus of a comic song boisterously.

Agatha Posket.

Don’t you recognise that voice?

Charlotte.