Horsham. I know. Very interesting ... very important ... very difficult to alter the status quo.
Wedgecroft. Then the poor little liar said she'd go off to an appointment with her dressmaker; and I heard nothing more till she sent for me a week later, and I found her almost too ill to speak. Even then she didn't tell me the truth! So, when O'Connell arrived, of course I spoke to him quite openly and all he told me in reply was that it wouldn't have been his child.
Farrant. Poor devil!
Wedgecroft. O'Connell?
Farrant. Yes, of course.
Wedgecroft. I wonder. Perhaps she didn't realize he'd been sent for ... or felt then she was dying and didn't care ... or lost her head. I don't know.
Farrant. Such a pretty little woman!
Wedgecroft. If I could have made him out and dealt with him, of course, I shouldn't have come to you. Farrant's known him even longer than I have.
Farrant. I was with him at Harrow.
Wedgecroft. So I went to Farrant first.