Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour

by W. Somerset Maugham

Now we're going to live happily ever afterwards.

[All the while the Admiral has been trying to get a word in, but each time he is about to start one of the others has broken in.

Admiral.

Silence. [He puffs and blows.] I never saw such a pair in my life.

Lady Frederick.

Now do explain it all, Admiral. I can't make head or tail out of these foolish creatures.

Admiral.

Well, they came and told me that Montgomerie had an I.O.U. of Gerald's for nine hundred pounds and was using it to blackmail you.

Fouldes.

Is that a fact?