MRS. TERENCE: Something?
BELSIZE: I'll tell you. I—
_A piano is heard in the sun-room, playing the "Merry Widow" waltz.
(Casually_) Other people in the house?
MRS. BRAMSON (calling shrilly): Mr. Laurie!
The piano stops.
HUBERT'S VOICE (as the piano stops, in the sun-room): Yes?
MRS. BRAMSON (to OLIVIA, sourly): Did you ask him to play the piano?
HUBERT comes back from the sun-room.
HUBERT (breezily): Hello, house on fire or something?