Toby: All right, only let me get out of this bloody house.

[She disappears into the bedroom ... he is staring into the fire when there is a timid knock at the door ... it is repeated.

John (hurrying to the door): ... Hullo? Who’s there?

[The door opens before he reaches it and Gwen comes in.

Hullo, Gwen.

Gwen: I say, did I put my foot in it downstairs with father? I’m sorry.

John: Oh, that’s all right.

Gwen: I thought you wouldn’t mind me coming up—father told me you were alone.

John: Did he?

Gwen: Can Frankie come up?