LADY WARGRAVE [who has risen].

Pardon me, ladies; but if you are about to consult your physician, you would no doubt prefer to be alone.

[They turn and see her for the first time.

VICTORIA.

Pray, don’t move.

GERALD.

My aunt, Lady Wargrave. Colonel Cazenove.

DOCTOR.

These matters are best discussed openly. A morbid modesty has too long closed our eyes. But the day of awakening has come. Sylvester, in her “Aspirations after a Higher Morality,” Bethune, in her “Man, the Betrayer,” Vivash, in her “Foolish Virgins,” have postulated the sexual problem from every conceivable point of view; and I have myself contributed to the discussion a modest little treatise——

ENID.