No, I expect two ladies to tea in half an hour, but you must admit no one else. These gentlemen will be forced to deprive me of their society in twenty-five minutes.
Blenkinsop.
Not at all. Not at all.
Gerald.
I repeat with considerable firmness that these gentlemen will be compelled by a previous engagement to leave me in twenty minutes.
Blenkinsop.
It’ll be difficult after that to make our departure seem perfectly natural, won’t it?
[A second ring is heard.
Gerald.