lord goring. Pray be calm, Lady Chiltern, and answer the questions I am going to put to you. You said his secretaries open his letters.

lady chiltern. Yes.

lord goring. Who is with him to-day? Mr. Trafford, isn’t it?

lady chiltern. No. Mr. Montford, I think.

lord goring. You can trust him?

lady chiltern. [With a gesture of despair.] Oh! how do I know?

lord goring. He would do what you asked him, wouldn’t he?

lady chiltern. I think so.

lord goring. Your letter was on pink paper. He could recognise it without reading it, couldn’t he? By the colour?

lady chiltern. I suppose so.