Grace.
[Ironically.] Perhaps they’ve ceased to realise that we are their betters.
Claude.
It’s not too late to teach them their mistake. Personally I mean to be master in my own house.
Grace.
[Abruptly.] Peggy Gann came to see me this afternoon, Claude.
Claude.
Did she?
[There is a very short pause. Cobbett sees what is going to happen and gets up.
Cobbett.