Ah! The magistrate?
Messiter.
Mr. Posket, mum.
[Agatha Posket sinks into a chair, Charlotte at her feet; Lukyn, overcome, falls on Vale’s shoulders.
END OF THE SECOND ACT.
THE THIRD ACT
The first scene is the Magistrate’s room at Mulberry Street Police Court, with a doorway covered by curtains, leading directly into the Court, and a door opening into a passage. It is the morning after the events of the last Act.
Police Sergeant Lugg, a middle-aged man with a slight country dialect, enters with “The Times” newspaper, and proceeds to cut it and glance at its contents, while he hums a song.
Mr. Wormington, an elderly, trim and precise man, enters.