[Doctor Curtis comes quickly downstairs.

DOCTOR

What’s this noise? I forbid it. Your mother has heard you.

HENRY (ashamed)

I’m sorry.

BEN (sulkily)

I didn’t mean to make a row.

HENRY

It’s him. (He looks bitterly at Ben) He brings out all the worst in us. He brought trouble into the world with him when he came, and ever since.

[Hannah, a middle-aged servant, comes hastily half-way downstairs and calls out sharply.