ENID [aside].

A man in distress! I must help him! [Advancing sweetly.] What were you saying, Doctor?

[Sits on the other side of Colonel.

COLONEL [aside].

Bethune! the best of ’em!

DOCTOR.

You know, from your own experience, that marriage is not a necessity.

COLONEL.

No, it’s a luxury—an expensive luxury.

ENID.