It was stupid of me. I ought to have come and told you. I was so pleased and excited that I forgot.
Violet.
I don't quite know why you should have been so excited.
Anne.
It will be very nice for me to have Ronny so near. You see, now I've given up my flat I shan't come to Egypt very often and I should never have seen Ronny. I can run over to Paris constantly. Besides, it's a step, isn't it? And I want to see him an Ambassador before I die.
Violet.
I don't see what good it will do him in Paris to speak Arabic like a native.
Arthur.
Oh, well, that is the F.O. all over. The best Persian scholar in the Service has spent the last six years in Washington.
Ronny.