Won't recognise his own dau—you'll drive me mad! [They continue to talk in undertones. Saunders is now fast asleep.]

RANKLING.

[To Mallory.] No—I don't like the look of poor Queckett.

MALLORY.

He seems altered.

RANKLING.

Altered—he glares like the devil. He's not married, is he?

MALLORY.

No.

RANKLING.