O'Dwyer.

[Rising and going to Tom.] Now, hadn't ye better make that six-and-twenty?

Imogen.

[Joining them, with asperity.] Why? why?

Tom.

No, no, certainly not. Go on.

Imogen.

[Angrily.] Not till Mr. O'Dwyer retires into his corner.

Tom.

O'Dwyer.——[O'Dwyer takes his chair, and retires to the "prompt-corner," out of sight, with the air of martyrdom. Tom addresses Rose.] You speak.