Scenes! What do you mean?

Parbury.

[C.] What! Isn’t there to be a scene? How splendid!

Mrs. Parbury.

[L.C.] I don’t understand the humour you are in.

Parbury.

I’m in a capital humour, dear. You’ve saved me for the moment from a savage attack on the work of a man whom I respect and admire.

Mrs. Parbury.

You mean simply that I’ve interrupted your work. You will not have reason to complain again.

[Is going.