[genially]

Quite so!

HAWCASTLE

[gayly]

Shall we dispose at once of the necessary little details, the various minor arrangements, the—the settlement?

[Interrupts himself with a friendly laugh.]

Of course, as a man of the world, of our world, you understand there are formalities in the nature of a settlement.

HORACE

[interrupting eagerly and pleasantly, laughing also]

Quite so, of course, I know, certainly, perfectly!