HELEN
[Blushing.] It is not the usual thing.
[She grows redder and more embarrassed.
LOTH
[Clumsily.] You are quite right, unhappily.
MRS. KRAUSE
[To LOTH.] It costs us fifteen shillin's a bottle. You needn't be scared to drink it. We gets it straight from Rheims; we ain't givin' you nothin' cheap; we wouldn't want it ourselves.
MRS. SPILLER
Ah, you can believe—m-me, Doctor: if his Excellency, the Minister von
Schadendorf, had been able to keep such a table …