Loveday.
(Eager.) Yes, yes, that is it!
Minister. Duchess.
(Coming forward to look at it.) Dear, dear! Fancy! I said Loveday wasn’t hysterical.
Smithers.
That looks as though the young lady was right. You’ve had a narrow escape, sir!
Varlie.
That don’t amount to shucks! What does that prove. There is only wild talk. I tell you I’m known at the American Embassy, I’m known to the Duchess here. You can’t begin to prove I ever saw that green trumpery. The only thing you’ve got against me is that I wore a false beard! (Sneers.) Bring that up against an American citizen and a minister of religion and you would look queer in the Law Courts!
Loveday.