Alec.
If you don't mind I'll stay and smoke just one cigarette with Dick Lomas. You know I'm not a dancing man.
Lady Kelsey.
Very well.
[All go out except Alec and Dick.
Dick.
I suppose you know we were all beseeching Providence you'd have the grace to stay away to-night?
Alec.
[With a smile.] I suspected it, I confess. I shouldn't have come only I wanted to see Lucy. I've been in the country all day, and I knew nothing about Macinnery's letter till I saw the placards at the station.
Dick.