Admiral
I can't see my grandson venturing to disobey me.
Lady Frederick
Then you're all agreed. So that's settled. I came to tell you your carriage was ready.
Admiral
Go and put on your bonnet, Rose. [To Lady Frederick.] Are you coming with us?
Lady Frederick
I'm afraid I can't. Au revoir.
Admiral
A tout à l'heure.
[He and Rose go out.
Gerald
Have you ever seen in your life any one so entirely delightful as Rose?
Lady Frederick
[Laughing.] Only when I've looked in the glass.
Gerald
My dear Elizabeth, how vain you are.
Lady Frederick
You're very happy, my Gerald.
Gerald
It's such a relief to have got over all the difficulties. I thought it never would come right. You are a brick, Elizabeth.
Lady Frederick
I really think I am rather.
Gerald
The moment you promised to arrange things I felt as safe as a house.
Lady Frederick
I said I'd do my best, didn't I? And I told you not to worry.
Gerald
[Turning round suddenly.] Isn't it all right?
Lady Frederick
No, it's about as wrong as it can possibly be. I knew Cohen was staying here, and I thought I could get him to hold the bills over for a few days.
Gerald
And won't he?
Lady Frederick
He hasn't got them any more.
Gerald
[Startled.] What!
Lady Frederick
They've been negotiated, and he swears he doesn't know who has them.
Gerald
But who could have been such a fool?
Lady Frederick
I don't know, that's just the awful part of it. It was bad enough before. I knew the worst Cohen could do, but now… It couldn't be Paradine.
Gerald
And then there's Montgomerie.
Lady Frederick
I shall see him to-day.
Gerald
What are you going to say to him?
Lady Frederick