She'll never marry you without her father's consent—and if you'd heard him last night in the cab——!

Horace.

[Easily.] I daresay. But he'll be very different this morning.

Pringle.

[Who has come nearer to him.] Why, you're not trusting to that trumpery seal of yours to convince him?

Horace.

No. I'm trusting to something—or rather somebody—[turning to him]—who will be more convincing than any seal.

Pringle.

It will take a good deal to reconcile him, or any of them, to such an extremely—er—Oriental interior as you rejoice in.

Horace.