DAVID [delighted]. You thing! You’ll find the lords expensive.
MAGGIE. Just a little cheap lord. [JAMES enters importantly.] My dear Lord Cheap, this is kind of you.
[JAMES hopes that MAGGIE’s reason is not unbalanced.]
DAVID [who really ought to have had education]. How de doo, Cheap?
JAMES [bewildered]. Maggie—-
MAGGIE. Yes, do call me Maggie.
ALICK [grinning]. She’s practising her first party, James. The swells are at the door.
JAMES [heavily]. That’s what I came to say. They are at the door.
JOHN. Who?
JAMES. The swells; in their motor. [He gives JOHN three cards.]