I never told you to. I wish you wouldn’t be so enterprising. Please hide it with the cream in the summer-house. (Ellis does so.) So you think I can safely trust you with this important piece of work, Baldwin?

Baldwin.

Yes, ’m.

(Ellis goes out.)

Lady Patricia.

Do it as soon as possible, as I shall often be sitting here during these adorable summer evenings—

(Bill O’Farrel enters during the rest of her sentence. He is a wholesome, typically English young man of about twenty-six.)

—and I couldn’t bear to miss many sunsets like yesterday’s.

Bill.

Patricia!