Dr. Did not Sir Humphrey lead us to infer that Mr. Potter once proposed for Mrs. Chetwynd?
Mrs. D. But had backed out of it.
Dr. The situation is extremely painful.
Mrs. D. When one’s asked out to dinner and one finds one’s hostess reclining in the arms of one of the guests——
Dr. The incident is calculated to impair the appetite and cast a gloom around the prandial board.
Mrs. D. Ill, forsooth! and the heat! But what can be expected of a scene-shifter?
Dr. Painter, my dear, scene painter.
Mrs. D. Painter. It’s all the same.
Dr. And of the lady’s parentage!