HAWCASTLE

[choked with rage, advancing on PIKE]

Why, you—

PIKE

[genially]

Oh! I hated to hand you this, my lord. I didn't come over here to make the fine flower of Europe any more trouble than they've got. But I had to show John Simpson's daughter.

[Movement from HORACE and ETHEL.]

And I reckon now she isn't wanting any alliance with the remnants of Crecy and Agincourt.

ETHEL

[tremulously, coming close to PIKE]