LILY and CHARLEY follow him.

MAGGIE runs in quickly and opens the sitting-room window, through which TENNANT can be seen shaking hands again and again with CHARLEY and LILY.

MAGGIE. Good luck!

LESLIE. [shouting through window.] Give my love to What’s-his-name, the Prime Minister!

MAGGIE. [singing.] “For I’ve lately got a notion for to cross the briny ocean.”

LESLIE. [joining.] “And I’m off to Philadelphia in the morning.”

LESLIE drawls out the last word, bursts out laughing and turns away.

MAGGIE. Anybody would think you were excited.

LESLIE. If a man will be a fool, Miss Maggie, he may as well go away a happy fool. A cheer costs nothing. So much for him. Now it’s me.