SYLVESTER.
Oh, I remember Lady Wargrave well.
COLONEL.
Wonderful woman, sir—a heart of gold—and a head—phew! Gerald takes after her. At Oxford, he carried everything before him.
SYLVESTER [laughing].
And now these women carry him behind them!
COLONEL.
But he’s a Cazenove! He’ll come right side up. We Cazenoves always do. We may go under every now and then, but we come up again! It’s in the blood.
SYLVESTER.
According to my wife—and Agnes is a clever woman in her way——