‘You must learn me that,’ and off she goes in song also:

‘Mrs. Dowey’s very ill,

Nothing can improve her.’

‘Stop!’ cries clever Kenneth, and finishes the verse:

‘But dressed up in a Paris gown

To waddle through the Louvre.’

They fling back their heads, she points at him, he points at her. She says ecstatically:

‘Hairy legs!’

A mad remark, which brings him to his senses; he remembers who and what she is.

‘Mind your manners!’ Rising, ‘Well, thank you for my tea. I must be stepping.’