LADY SIMS. Is that the usual thing?
KATE. Oh, yes.
LADY SIMS. They don't try to get it?
KATE. I don't know. That is what we are told to say in the letters.
[To her at present the only important thing about the letters is that they are ten shillings the hundred.
LADY SIMS. [Returning to surer ground.] I should explain that my husband is not a man who cares for honors. So long as he does his duty——
KATE. Yes, I have been putting that in.
LADY SIMS. Have you? But he particularly wants it to be known that he would have declined a title were it not——
KATE. I have got it here.
LADY SIMS. What have you got?