[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.