[Kissing Mrs. Wharton.] How do you do?

Mrs. Wharton.

How are you, my dear?

Mrs. Littlewood.

[To John.] I brought you a wedding present, John.

[She hands him a small case in which is a pearl pin.

John.

Oh, I say, that is splendid of you. Just look, mother. Isn’t it a ripper?

Mrs. Littlewood.

It was Archie’s, you know. He always used to be so proud of it.