Agatha Posket.

Good-night, dear.

[Beatie goes out quietly; Agatha Posket joins Cis.

Mr. Posket.

[To Mr. Bullamy.] We were married abroad without consulting friends or relations on either side. That’s how it is I have never seen my sister-in-law, Miss Verrinder, who is coming from Shropshire to stay with us—she ought to——

Wyke enters.

Wyke.

Miss Verrinder has come, ma’am.

Mr. Posket.