Oh, Miss Brudenell doesn’t know why rooms sometimes go round and round.
Lord Dangars.
No? Perhaps her relations are more penetrating.
Dunstan Renshaw.
Thank goodness there are no such incumbrances. Leslie is an orphan; I’m an orphan. I’m alone in the world; she has only a young brother who doesn’t count. So we start at even weights.
[He drains the remainder of the water and shivers.]
Lord Dangars.
Met her at a ball, of course. I really will be seen at dances again by-and-by.
Dunstan Renshaw.
A ball—nonsense. Her only idea of a ball is a lot of girls sitting against a wall pulling crackers. She’s a “little maid from school.”