Etchingham.
I should have thought I had enough to do without being pestered with a foolish woman’s matrimonial difficulties.
Lady Francis.
[With a laugh.] You really have a very detached way of looking at things, Frank. No one would imagine, to hear you speak, that the foolish woman in question was your daughter.
Etchingham.
Really, Angela, I must beg you not to make this a subject of flippancy.
Lady Francis.
[Good-humouredly.] Well, what do you propose to do?
Etchingham.
[Flying out of his chair.] Do? What do you expect me to do? You tell me that Kate came home at twelve o’clock last night without a stitch of clothing....