GETS UP AND QUITS THE ROOM WITH DIGNITY.
The C.'s W. Oh, I've no belief in foreign doctors. I always find a few drops of aconite or pulsatilla,——I have my homœopathic case with me now. Perhaps, if I went and had a talk with her I could——
[She goes out energetically.
Podb. Another gone! (To the Old Maids.) So you aren't going down to the Cloisters to-night? I'm told there's to be some fun there—Hide-and-seek, or something—first-rate place for it, especially now the moon's up!
First O. M. Nobody told us a word about it. Hide-and-seek—and in those quaint old Cloisters too—It sounds delightful! What do you say, Tabitha. Shall we just——? Only to look on, you know. We needn't play, unless——
[The Two Old Maids withdraw in a pleased flutter. Podbury crosses to Culchard.
Podb. (with determination). Look here, Culchard, I'd just like to know what you mean by the way you're going on.
Culch. I thought we were both agreed that discussions of this kind——
Podb. It's all bosh our travelling together if we're not to have any discussions. You've been on the sulk long enough. And I'll thank you to inform me what you're after here, going about alone with Miss Prendergast like this, in the Museum with her all the morning, and on the lake again this afternoon—it won't do, you know!