DUVALLET. [with redoubled comprehension] Perfectly.
MARGARET. Bobby has spent the last fortnight in prison. You dont mind, do you?
DUVALLET. No, naturally. I have spent the last fortnight in prison.
The conversation drops. Margaret renews it with an effort.
MARGARET. Dora has spent the last fortnight in prison.
DUVALLET. Quite so. I felicitate Mademoiselle on her enlargement.
DORA. Trop merci, as they say in Boulogne. No call to be stiff with one another, have we?
Juggins comes in.
JUGGINS. Beg pardon, sir. Mr and Mrs Gilbey are coming up the street.
DORA. Let me absquatulate [making for the door].