Oh, I should like to take you by the neck and strangle you.
Parker-Jennings.
Look out.
[They all stop for a moment in a state of breathless expectation. Lady Wanley comes in with Mrs. Withers. She gasps as she sees Jack Straw.
Lady Wanley.
Oh, I thought you’d gone.
[She is immediately followed by Adrian von Bremer. Jack Straw goes up to him very cordially.
Jack Straw.
Ah, my dear friend, I’ve been expecting you all the morning.
[They all start. As the scene proceeds there is in every one increasing astonishment and perplexity.