Blenkinsop.

But I tell you I’m not joking.

Mrs. Dot.

Thank heaven for that. I’m weary of your bad jokes.

Blenkinsop.

The thing started as a bad joke, but it has ended in something very different. A change has come over me, and I’m ashamed.

Mrs. Dot.

[Looking up.] Eh?

Blenkinsop.

Don’t you see that I’m a different man? Dot, it’s you who’ve changed me.