COLONEL, jumping up, ‘Not really? Hallo! I never for a moment—It was true, then. Amy, you are a good little girl to come.’
AMY, to whom this is a not unexpected step in the game, ‘Dear father.’
STEVE, to whom it is a very unexpected step indeed, ‘Amy! Is this—your daughter, Alice?’
ALICE, wondering at the perfidy of the creature, ‘I forgot that you don’t know her, Steve.’
STEVE. ‘But if—if this is your daughter—you are the mother.’
ALICE. ‘The mother?’
COLONEL, jovially, ‘Well thought out, Steve. He is a master mind, Alice.’
STEVE. ‘But—but——’
Mercifully Amy has not lost her head. She is here to save them all.
AMY. ‘Introduce me, father.’