Selina: He has designed what he calls a world danger map, showing Socialist danger centres in red—Glasgow in scarlet, and Munich in snow-white.

Mrs. Martineau: I thought it was a map of scarlet fever.

Selina: So it is.

Ann: You are all very unkind about Ninian. He is so public-spirited and conscientious.

Mrs. Martineau: He is very good-looking.

Selina: The Candovers have kept up a higher standard of imbecility and beauty than any other family in England.

[Enter Ninian, Lord William, Molyneux and Tim.

Ninian: Well—clothes, servants and babies? Have they all been exhausted? Is there a character still intact?

Selina: We have been talking about Smyrna and Austria-Hungary and the Socialist danger.