Inn. Well! I went to Cambridge you know——
Corn. And you have come back, I know, but what did you do there? What have you discovered?
Inn. I found Ethel——
Corn. Good!
Inn. Was no longer there——
Corn. Then you didn’t find her?
Inn. (sitting on couch) No; nor the slightest trace of where she had gone.
Corn. (goes L. and up round table) Then she’ll turn up when least expected; what a confounded fool I was! If the affair reaches old Sillocks’s ears, good bye to Beatrice; hang it! I’d have discovered something if I’d gone. (sits R. of table.)
Inn. (rises and coming C.) It wasn’t much, but I discovered something—I learnt that Ethel had a sister, a governess. Did you know Ethel had a sister, a governess?
Corn. Yes, but I never saw her!