Parbury.
Send her back to me, Colonel. Consult at once your happiness and mine by using your authority. Tell her that cook is in revolt, and that Evans is impertinent. Tell her that I only want my own way when I know I am absolutely right, as in this case. And above all, tell her that I prefer her society to that of a second-class cynic who bellows for champagne at ten o’clock in the morning.
[Exit Parbury, L.
Gunning.
In regard to your son-in-law, Colonel, you have my respectful sympathy.
Armitage.
A good fellow, but inconsiderate. [He lowers his voice.] I may tell you in confidence, Gunning, that I had been looking forward to keeping a rather pleasant appointment to-night——
Gunning.
[Falling into the confidential manner.] Really!