Mr. Balbus: The Great Wall of China. They’ve retained me to go and inspect it. I leave to-morrow.
Mrs. Balbus hurries in and embraces her husband shamelessly. Emily Jane follows and embraces them both. McVittie and Price, not to be outdone, embrace each other in the corner.
“You’re going to China, my husband?” asks Mrs. Balbus, tenderly.
“Yes, wife.”
“I’ll go with you.”
Emily Jane: And I, Daddy.
McVittie & Price: We will come too, old friend.
Mr. Balbus beams at them through his tears. The audience beam at each other through theirs.
II
They have been wrecked.