Lady Kitty. [Taking it off.] You’re capable of tearing it off my back if I don’t.
Teddie. [Putting the cloak on Elizabeth.] And we’ll buy you a tooth-brush in London in the morning.
Lady Kitty. She must write a note for Arnold. I’ll put it on her pincushion.
Teddie. Pincushion be blowed! Come, darling. We’ll drive through the dawn and through the sunrise.
Elizabeth. [Kissing Lady Kitty and Porteous.] Good-bye. Good-bye.
[Teddie stretches out his hand and she takes it. Hand in hand they go out into the night.
Lady Kitty. Oh, Hughie, how it all comes back to me! Will they suffer all we suffered? And have we suffered all in vain?
Porteous. My dear, I don’t know that in life it matters so much what you do as what you are. No one can learn by the experience of another because no circumstances are quite the same. If we made rather a hash of things perhaps it was because we were rather trivial people. You can do anything in this world if you’re prepared to take the consequences, and consequences depend on character.
[Enter Champion-Cheney, rubbing his hands. He is as pleased as Punch.
C.-C. Well, I think I’ve settled the hash of that young man.