Well, here's the tea! [Mrs. Griggs brings it in as he speaks. He turns to Hilda.] I wish you'd pour it out. I'm so clumsy.
Hilda.
[Smiling at him affectionately.] I shall be delighted.
[She proceeds to do so, and the conversation goes
on while Basil hands Mabel tea and cake.
John.
I told them it was improper for more than one woman at a time to call at a bachelor's rooms, Basil.
Basil.
If you'd warned me I'd have made the show a bit tidier.
Mabel.
Oh, that's just what we didn't want. We wanted to see the Celebrity at Home, without lime-light.