Nearly full.... When!... And you had better take something as well—to fortify yourself against what I am going to say.

Dean.

Ah.... A little soda-water. (Helps himself.) So you are going to be unpleasant, my dear Eileen?

Mrs. O’Farrel.

I am. Those two had been quarrelling just now.

Dean.

That was evident—even to me.

Mrs. O’Farrel.

They had been quarrelling bitterly—and I can make a shrewd guess at the cause.