Elizabeth.
[Looking up, and patting Charlotte's hand.] Surely, Charlotte! [Smiling.] We are to be cousins, you know.
Charlotte.
[Cheerfully.] Why, so we are!
[Colonel Forster comes from the ball-room. Lydia and Denny enter from the drawing-room.]
Colonel Forster.
[Hurriedly going to Charlotte.] I am to have the honour of this reel, I believe, Miss Lucas.
Charlotte.
Oh yes, Colonel Forster.
[She goes out with Forster, leaving Elizabeth alone, still seated. Lydia and Denny approach Elizabeth.]