Ethel.
You told me seventy-nine a little while ago.
Jack Straw.
I have since seen in the paper that the Archduchess Anastasia has had twins, which makes eighty-one. What more probable than that the Ambassador has never seen the Archduke Sebastian?
Mrs. Parker-Jennings.
Oh, but what a risk to take. It’s enough to turn my false ’air grey.
Jack Straw.
In any case, he can’t have set eyes on him for four years, because nobody has.
Mrs. Parker-Jennings.
I suppose it ’asn’t struck you that he may talk to you in Pomeranian.