Selina: Other people?
[Sits D. S. L.
Thompson: Other people’s happiness, Miss Selina.
Selina: Ah!
Thompson: Her ladyship can’t see that the worthless is the worthless.
Selina: She doesn’t try to improve them, does she, Thompson?
Thompson: No, miss—to make them happy. Pampering the riff-raff that’s what she does. Why, only the other day she was taken in by a swindler, and do you know what she said, m’lord?
Lord William: No.
Thompson: She said, “Well, it’s much better than if he’d been honest and I’d not believed him.”
Selina: Don’t you try and protect her against herself, Thompson?