Barlow.

Lucky dog, I wish I were going to Paris with her.

Dickie.

[Fervently.] I wish you were.

Barlow.

Ha, ha. Well, well, I must be running away. I’m dining out as usual. These good duchesses, they will not leave me alone. Good-bye.

[He goes out. Dickie walks up and down the room thinking. In a moment Penelope puts her head in.

Penelope.

I say, darling, oughtn’t you to be packing?

Dickie.