[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.