How very annoying!
Mrs. Dot.
And it’s so unexpected, because he’s not at all the sort of boy who falls in and out of love with every pretty girl he meets. I think you’re his first passion, and he’s inclined to take it very seriously.
Lady Sellenger.
Poor boy, I can afford to sympathise with him now that Nellie is safely engaged to Gerald Hollington.
Nellie.
It’s really rather flattering, isn’t it? But how on earth d’you know?
Mrs. Dot.
He tells me everything. You see I’ve always tried to be his friend as well as his aunt. He has no secrets from me.
Blenkinsop.