Yes. I could have taken that glass with impunity. It was my eighteenth tumbler.
BOX.
Then I'm safe. I began with the eighteenth. Aha! I shall smoke a cigar and read the paper.
COX (aside).
The paper!
BOX.
Don't stop for me. (Aside) I wonder if he's seen the news.
COX (aside).
He mustn't know she's here. He's got it. (Seeing Box reading the paper.) Would you allow me to look at the paper?
BOX.