Lady Kitty. I daren’t. It must be all peopled with the ghosts of our past. One should never go again to a place where one has been happy. It would break my heart.
Porteous. Do you remember how we used to sit on the terrace of the old castle and look at the Adriatic? We might have been the only people in the world, you and I, Kitty.
Lady Kitty. [Tragically.] And we thought our love would last for ever.
[Enter Champion-Cheney.
Porteous. Is there any chance of bridge this evening?
C.-C. I don’t think we can make up a four.
Porteous. What a nuisance that boy went away like that! He wasn’t a bad player.
C.-C. Teddie Luton?
Lady Kitty. I think it was very funny his going without saying good-bye to anyone.
C.-C. The young men of the present day are very casual.