MARK. He has gone back to South America.
(MICHAEL is listening intently.)
SIR LYOLF. Gone back to South America?
MARK. He only stayed three weeks in England. It is said that she has pensioned him off—he is to keep to his hemisphere, and she is to keep to hers.
SIR LYOLF. I don’t like it!
MARK. Don’t like what?
SIR LYOLF. I don’t like women who pension off their husbands to live in South America.
MICH. Do you see much of her in town?
MARK. Not much. About every two months she sweeps into church in a whirlwind of finery and perfume, gives me a ridiculously large sum for the offertory, makes some most irreverent joke, or else pretends to be deeply religious——
MICH. Pretends?