LADY CREECH
Mr. Granger-Simpson!
HORACE
I'm sorry, Lady Creech, but I've had a most awful shaking-up, and I'm almost thinking of going back home with Mr. Pike. I rather think he's about right in his ideas. You know we abused him, not only for himself, but for his vulgar friend; yet his vulgar friend turned out to be a grand-duke—and look at what our friends turned out to be.
[Goes rapidly into the hotel.]
[ALMERIC'S voice is heard from the grove. "Come along! There's a good fellow!">[
LADY CREECH
Isn't that Almeric?
PIKE
Here he comes, shamed and bending under the blow!