[Gwen goes. John settled down in a comfortable chair to a book, he gets up to find sheets of manuscript paper, a pipe and tobacco, and throws the lot down beside the chair, and gets into it again ... his father comes into the room.

Mr. Freeman: There you are.

John: Yes?

Mr. Freeman: There’s just one thing I want to say to you to-night.

John: Yes?

Mr. Freeman: Not a word of all this business to your sister.

Curtain

End of Act II

ACT III

ACT III