REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (very flustered).

Oh I say—look here, you know—? (Aside.) This is the devil and all—Charlie will never forgive me! (Aloud.) My dear good girl, he isn't your "own," I assure you he isn't. There is a Mrs. Sylvester, as you know very well. (Aside.) If he comes in and finds her here, there's an end of all my sittings. What a piece of infernal luck to be sure!

ROSALINE (resolutely).

Where is he?

REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (sullenly).

I don't know—I suppose he is at home.

ROSALINE.

Fetch him then—let me see his dear face again.

REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.

What???