REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (in terror).

Ought he! I won't be seen here—I can't. She is a friend of my wife's. I won't be found in your company. I'm a moral man, and she knows you.

ROSALINE (indignantly).

What?

REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.

Here, hi, I will be a lay-figure. By George, I've got it—I will be the Mandarin, see!

(He disguises himself with Rosaline's assistance as a Mandarin, and sits cross-legged at back, wagging his head.)

REMBRANDT TEMPENNY.

How is that?

ROSALINE.