MONTY

I say, I as nearly as possible called you Janet right out before Bertha.

JANET

So I saw. You did call me Miss De Mullin, by the way,—which wasn’t very clever of you.

MONTY

Did I? What an ass I am! But I don’t suppose she noticed.

JANET

I dare say not. (A shrill cry comes from the wood on the right. Then silence. Janet starts up.) What was that?

MONTY

I don’t know.