[She leans back in her chair.

JUSTINE—(at the door.)

Entrez, entrez toujours, dat is, come in, good mister.

Enter Dick. He bows; and, squeezing his hat in his hands, looks round him with considerable embarrassment.

JUSTINE—(to Lady Amaranthe.)

Bah! comme il sent le cuir, n'est-ce pas, madame?

LADY AMARANTHE.

Faugh! mes sels—ma vinaigrette, Justine—non, l'eau de Cologne, qui est là sur la table. (Justine brings her some eau de Cologne; she pours some upon her handkerchief, and applies it to her temples and to her nose, as if overcome; then, raising her eye-glass, she examines Dick from head to foot.) Good man—a—pray, what is your name?

DICK—(with a profound bow.)

Dick, please your ladyship.