Good heavens, I’m not blaming you. I only wish to point out that if you introduced Mrs. Jennings to your friends, it was a matter of business rather than of sentiment.
Lady Wanley.
[With a little laugh.] I suppose you think it’s very natural that she should wish to kick away the ladder by which she climbed.
[A Waiter comes up to Holland.
Waiter (Jack Straw).
Yes, sir.
Holland.
Two coffees and two Benedictines. But you’re not my usual waiter. Where’s Pierre?
Waiter.
[Blandly.] He’s attending the funeral of an elderly female relative, sir.