[He speaks seriously, as if the thing were incredible.]
ETHEL
[smiling]
But isn't it good that the pater "made his pile," as the Americans say, and let us come over here when we were young to find the nobler things, Hoddy—the nobler things!
HORACE
The nobler things—the nobler things, [pg 039] sis. When old Hawcastle dies I'll be saying, quite off-hand, you know, "My sister, the Countess of Hawcastle—"
ETHEL
[thoughtfully]
You don't suppose that father's friend, my guardian, this old Mr. Pike, will be—will be QUEER, do you?
HORACE