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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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Where are you going now?
Lady Frederick
I have rather a headache. I'm going to lie down.
Mereston
I'm so sorry.
[Lady Frederick goes out. Mereston stares after her anxiously, and makes a step towards the door.
Lady Mereston
[Sharply.] Where are you going, Charlie?
Mereston
I never asked Lady Frederick if I could do anything.
Lady Mereston
Good heavens, there are surely plenty of servants in the hotel to get her anything she wants.
Mereston
Don't you think a drive in the motor would do her good?
Lady Mereston
[Unable to control herself.] Oh, I have no patience with you. I never saw such a ridiculous infatuation in my life.
Paradine
Steady, old girl, steady.
Mereston
What on earth d'you mean, mother?
Lady Mereston
Presumably you're not going to deny that you're in love with that woman.
Mereston
[Growing pale.] Would you mind speaking of her as Lady Frederick?
Lady Mereston
You try me very much, Charlie. Please answer my question.
Mereston
I don't want to seem unkind to you, mother, but I think you have no right to ask about my private affairs.
Fouldes
If you're going to talk this matter over you're more likely to come to an understanding if you both keep your tempers.
Mereston
There's nothing I wish to discuss.
Lady Mereston
Don't be absurd, Charlie. You're with Lady Frederick morning, noon and night. She can never stir a yard from the hotel but you go flying after. You pester her with your ridiculous attentions.
Fouldes
[Blandly.] One's relations have always such an engaging frankness. Like a bad looking-glass, they always represent you with a crooked nose and a cast in your eye.
Lady Mereston
[To Mereston.] I have certainly a right to know what you mean by all this and what is going to come of it.
Mereston
I don't know what will come of it.
Fouldes
The question that excites our curiosity is this: are you going to ask Lady Frederick to marry you?
Mereston
I refuse to answer that. It seems to me excessively impertinent.
Fouldes
Come, come, my boy, you're too young to play the heavy father. We're both your friends. Hadn't you better make a clean breast of it? After all, your mother and I are interested in nothing so much as your welfare.
Lady Mereston
[Imploring.] Charlie!
Mereston
Of course I'd ask her to marry me if I thought for a moment that she'd accept. But I'm so terrified that she'll refuse, and then perhaps I shall never see her again.
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