frances. My congratulations. I've not seen you since I heard the news.
kent. [Glad and unembarrassed.] Thank you. I do deserve them, don't I? Mrs. Farrant didn't come down . . she left us to breakfast together. But I've a message for you . . her love and she is in town. I went and saw Lord Charles, sir. He will come to you and be here at half past eleven.
trebell. Look at these.
He smacks on the back, so to speak, the pile of parcels and letters.
kent. Oh, lord! . . I'd better start on them.
frances. [Continuing in her smooth oldmaidish manner.] Thank you for getting engaged just before you went off with Henry . . it has given me my only news of him, through Lucy and your postcards.
trebell. Oh, what about Wedgecroft?
kent. I think it was he spun up just as I'd been let in.
trebell. Oh, well . . [And he rings at the telephone which is on his table.]