MRS. METHERELL. Looks as if you were in.
(Edmund enters hesitatingly.)
ELSIE. Have you heard about Jack's accident?
(Mrs. Wilmot and Mrs. Norbury remain seated, eyeing Elsie's clothes.)
MRS. METHERELL (closing door calmly). Yes. There was a special out. They get papers out for anything nowadays.
ELSIE (indignantly). You take it very easily.
MRS. METHERELL. He'll be looked after. There's a doctor on the ground.
EDMUND (politely awkward). Perhaps I ought to introduce myself, Mrs. Metherell. My name is Whitworth—Mr. Austin Whitworth's brother. This is Miss Whitworth.
MRS. METHERELL (with some anxiety). Is Jack hurt worse?
ELSIE (gravely). Not that we know of.