Pringle.

[With satisfaction.] You don't mean it! [Turning to Horace, who is on the other side of the hall, talking to Mrs. Futvoye and Sylvia.] Then you've only just got this place finished, eh, Ventimore?

Horace.

That's all, Pringle.

Professor Futvoye.

To build and decorate such a place as this must have cost a very considerable sum of money.

Horace.

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But it didn't.

Professor Futvoye.

[Coming towards him.] And that costume you're wearing, those negroes in rich liveries, all this senseless profusion and display we see around us—are you going to tell me they haven't cost you anything?