KATE. [Reading.] "Indeed, I would have asked to be allowed to decline had it not been that I want to please my wife."
LADY SIMS. [Heavily.] But how could you know it was that?
KATE. Is it?
LADY SIMS. [Who, after all, is the one with the right to ask questions.] Do they all accept it for that reason?
KATE. That is what we are told to say in the letters.
LADY SIMS. [Thoughtlessly.] It is quite as if you knew my husband.
KATE. I assure you, I don't even know his name.
LADY SIMS. [Suddenly showing that she knows him.] Oh, he wouldn't like that!
[And it is here that Harry re-enters in his city garments, looking so gay, feeling so jolly, that we bleed for him. However, the annoying Katherine is to get a shock also.
LADY SIMS. This is the lady, Harry.