Irene.

You help me! Child, my small corner in the world is hewn out of stone; there’s not a path there that it would not bruise your little feet to tread.

Mrs. Stonehay.

[To Wilfrid.] I am in ecstacy! The moment Lord Dangars arrives in Florence I shall bring him to the Villa Colobiano.

Wilfrid Brudenell.

This is the way to the garden.

Mrs. Stonehay.

[Watching Leslie and Irene.] I thought so. We shall not be patronized by Mrs. Renshaw again.

[Wilfrid and Mrs. Stonehay go down the garden steps.]

Leslie.