RUPERT
I don’t know her.
JESSIE
She’s been trying to entangle Lancelot, and he’s completely lost what slight intelligence he had, the little ninny! She’s old enough to be his mother.
(The settee makes a slight convulsive movement.)
RUPERT
Sh! She’ll hear you.
(Mrs. Curtis enters from the left. She looks about, with a faint embarrassment. Jessie stares at her, then speaks coldly.)
JESSIE