You must not allow anything to counteract this.
Duchess.
(To Mr. Hyde.) Well, young man, remember! It’s neither for yourself nor for your ideas I’m launching you on the defenceless man at the helm, but simply because Loveday used to have fascinating freckles on her nose when she was six years old.
Gordon.
I know I owe her an awful lot. And you too. I’m ever so grateful, I can’t say how grateful. Posterity will—
Duchess.
(Interrupting.) You are going to say that I’ll go down to history as the patron of genius, of course—I’m glad to hear it. It may help to counteract the other way I shall go down to history. No one who has had two successive husbands, both Dukes, could fail to find posterity as critical as the present generation is spiteful.
(Gordon looks bewildered.)
Loveday.
Don’t believe her, Gordon. Everybody’s awfully fond of her.