MAGGIE comes to the doorway and catches sight of CHARLEY. She comes in. In the front parlour SYBIL can be seen still resisting, while LILY, LESLIE, and PERCY MASSEY beseech her.
MAGGIE. You here—all alone?
CHARLEY. ’Um.
MAGGIE. What’s the matter?
CHARLEY. Nothing.
MAGGIE. Why didn’t you come into the front room?
CHARLEY. I can hear quite as well here.
MAGGIE. Got the hump?
CHARLEY. What for? Head’s a bit nasty, so I’m smoking it off.
MAGGIE. It isn’t that—it’s all this about Tennant.