Edith.

[Aside to Miss Vernon.] Don’t you think we might go down to the lake?

Miss Vernon.

By all means.... There’s nothing I can get you, Mrs. Insoley?

Mrs. Insoley.

[Graciously.] Nothing, my dear Helen.

[Miss Vernon and Edith Lewis go out, and a moment later Cobbett slips out also.

Mrs. Insoley.

Claude, will you take Miss Hall into the dining-room and give her a sandwich and a glass of port?