Mrs Jennings. Oh, the grave is chatty, I do assure you, compared to me.

[Voice outside: Penge! Guard puts his head inside window unseen by them].

Duke. Very well, then, you may consider yourself engaged.

Mrs Jennings [enraptured]. Engaged! Oh!!

Guard [loud]. Penge! [Duke and Mrs Jennings start and pick up papers, etc.]. Well, this is a business-like betrothal as ever I see! [Aloud]. This is your station, sir. Better come out and have the rest of the ceremony on the platform.

Duke [getting out]. Look here, my man—none of your insolence!

[Duke gets out loftily].

Mrs Jennings [speaking to Guard at window]. You mustn't speak to him like that; he's the Duke of Peckham Rye.

Guard. Ah, yes, likely! And you're a Member of Parliament, I suppose. All right!

[He walks a little further away].