[Quietly to Queckett.] The pudding is in the arey, sir, waiting to be paid.

QUECKETT.

I'll come to it. [Jane goes out. To Peggy.] Margaret, show Admiral Rankling and Mr. Mallory where the cigarettes are—they may like—[To himself] Years are going off my life! [He goes out.]

PEGGY.

[ To Mallory.] May I take you to the cigarettes?

MALLORY.

[To Peggy.] You may take me anywhere.

PEGGY.

[Bashfully.] Oh! [To Rankling.] The cigarettes are in the next room, Admiral Rankling.

RANKLING.