You don’t mean to say you’re so simple-minded as to imagine he can do anything but resign his seat if he were made co-respondent in a divorce case? They say, if we get in again, he’s to be given the Ministry of War. Humpty-Dumpty. It’s the end of his political career.
Catherine.
[Desperately.] We have nothing to reproach ourselves with. Nothing.
George Winter.
You sent a note to him last night. What did you say?
Catherine.
[Defiantly.] I asked him to come here at twelve o’clock.
George Winter.
[Taking out his watch.] It’s nearly twelve now. I’ll wait. And you shall talk to him.
[Enter Anne Etchingham and Teddie O’Donnell. Anne is like her sister Catherine, but smaller and slighter; she is brighter as well and more vivacious, with pretty caressing ways. Edward O’Donnell is an insignificant, amiable, good-looking young man of three-and-twenty.