(Enter Jem. Stands in amazement.)
Jem: For Heaven's sake, what is the matter?
Sir W.: Ask your Aunt Florence, my dear boy.
Lady Flo: I feel positively ashamed that you should come upon us—upon your uncle, I mean—at a moment when he is behaving like a raving madman!
Jem: A raving madman! My uncle Jem!
Lady Flo: Man-like, you side with a man! (With increasing agitation) I have always known your uncle to be a weak, nerveless——(Enter Kitty. Looks around, dumfounded.)
JEM: "WHAT IS THE MATTER?"
Kitty: Dear aunty! I'm frightened! You can't be well! What does this mean?
Lady Flo: Only that your husband is inciting mine to be abusive.