Blenkinsop.

Then I should very much like to know what you are doing.

Mrs. Dot.

I’m asking you a very simple and ordinary question.

Blenkinsop.

Thank God, it’s not one that women ask often.

Mrs. Dot.

I never saw any one out of whom it’s harder to get a straight answer.

Blenkinsop.

You must make allowances for a pardonable agitation.