[Bows and sits, C.
DOCTOR [sits by him].
The truth amounts to this: the one mitigating circumstance about the existence of Man is, that he occasionally co-operates in the creation of a Woman.
COLONEL.
His proudest privilege! The mystery to me is, that you ladies haven’t found it out before.
Re-enter Enid, C.
DOCTOR.
Yes, but you shirk the question!
[Colonel is fanning himself, helplessly.