Carbery.
I shouldn't have thought there was much of the milk of human kindness to overflow in Alexander Mackenzie. By all accounts he dealt with the slave-traders in Africa with a good deal of vigour.
Mrs. Crowley.
The slave-traders must be quaking in their shoes if they know he's starting out again, for he's made up his mind to exterminate them, and when Alec Mackenzie makes up his mind to do a thing, he appears to do it.
Lady Kelsey.
He has the reputation of a hard man, but no one could be more delightful than he has been to me.
Mrs. Crowley.
I don't think I like him, but he's certainly a strong man, and in England just now every one's so weak and floppy, it's rather a relief to come across somebody who's got a will of iron and nerves of steel.
[George Allerton comes in. He is a very
young man, good-looking, though at the
moment pale and haggard, with a rather
weak face.
George.