PIKE

[with gravity, yet smiling faintly]

I shouldn't be surprised if that was the name for it. Yes, sir, all the way from Indiana.

[ETHEL utters a low cry of fear.]

[HORACE, having secured his hat, is just rising to go, drops back into his chair with a stifled exclamation of dismay.]

[HAWCASTLE lays his paper flat on table. All this instantaneous.][pg 057]

HAWCASTLE

By Jove!

[They all stare at PIKE.]

PIKE