Would you like me to give you the letter at once?

Hornby.

I wish you would.

[Norah sits down at an escritoire and begins to write a letter.]

Fact is, I’m broke. I was all right as long as I stuck to bridge. I used to make money on that. Over a thousand a year.

Miss Pringle.

[Horrified.] What!

Hornby.

Playing regularly, you know. If I hadn’t been a fool I’d have stuck to that. But I got bitten with chemi.

Norah.