Please! If you found him, you’d only see a total stranger to you. But he wouldn’t be a stranger to quite a lot of people in this hotel that I know.
INGOLDSBY (now shaking his head)
I’m afraid I don’t see it.
MRS. CURTIS (in a faltering voice)
He’s just here for one day and we—we didn’t want anyone to know it. I had so many engagements I could only take a short walk in the country with him this morning and—and promise to meet him here at five this afternoon.
LANCELOT (who has been staring at her painfully)
But—but—see here!
MRS. CURTIS
Yes, I tried to get you to run away and dance with some nice young thing.
LANCELOT (pathetically)