RICHARD.
I shall go. I tell you. Wait out there if you wish.
[He goes out by the door on the right. Robert goes out hastily through the porch but comes back the same instant.]
ROBERT.
An umbrella! [With a sudden gesture.] O!
[He goes out again through the porch. The hall door is heard to open and close. Richard enters, followed by Bertha, who is dressed in a darkbrown costume and wears a small dark red hat. She has neither umbrella nor waterproof.]
RICHARD.
[Gaily.] Welcome back to old Ireland!
BERTHA.
[Nervously, seriously.] Is this the place?
RICHARD.
Yes, it is. How did you find it?
BERTHA.
I told the cabman. I didn’t like to ask my way. [Looking about her curiously.] Was he not waiting? Has he gone away?
RICHARD.
[Points towards the garden.] He is waiting. Out there. He was waiting when I came.
BERTHA.
[Selfpossessed again.] You see, you came after all.