What for?
LADY CREECH
Why, don't you understand—you're to be the Countess of Hawcastle, aren't you?
ALMERIC
Why—hasn't he told you?—the only obstacle on earth between us was this fellow's consent to the settlement, and he's just given it.
ETHEL
[dazed and angry]
Do you mean to say he's consented to that!
ALMERIC
Why, to be sure—he's just consented with his own lips—didn't you?