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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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[Taken aback.] I beg your pardon.
Lady Frederick
Surely the receipt of my brother's letter was sufficient answer for you. After that you must have guessed there was no likelihood that I should change my mind.
Captain Montgomerie
What letter? I don't understand.
Gerald
I sent you a note this morning enclosing a cheque for the money I lost to you.
Captain Montgomerie
I've not received it.
Gerald
It must be waiting for you at the hotel.
[Captain Montgomerie pauses and looks meditatively at the assembled company.
Lady Frederick
I think there's nothing for which I need detain you longer.
Captain Montgomerie
[Smiling.] I don't think I've quite finished yet. Has it slipped your memory that the two bills fall due to-day? Allow me to present them.
[He takes them out of his pocket-book.
Lady Frederick
I'm very sorry I can't pay them – at present.
Captain Montgomerie
I regret that I can't wait. You must pay them.
Lady Frederick
I tell you it's impossible.
Captain Montgomerie
Then I shall get an order against you.
Lady Frederick
That you may do to your heart's content.
Captain Montgomerie
You realise the consequences. It's not very nice to be an undischarged bankrupt.
Lady Frederick
Much nicer than to marry a rascally money-lender.
Fouldes
May I look at these interesting documents?
Captain Montgomerie
Certainly. [Blandly.] I haven't the least wish to be offensive.
Fouldes
[Taking them.] You fail lamentably in achieving your wish. Three thousand five hundred pounds in all. It seems hardly worth while to make a fuss about so small a sum.
Captain Montgomerie
I'm in urgent need of money.
Fouldes
[Ironically.] So rich a man as you?
Captain Montgomerie
Even a rich man may be temporarily embarrassed.
Fouldes
Then be so good as to wait for one moment. [He sits down at a table and writes a cheque.] No sight is more affecting than that of a millionaire in financial straits.
Lady Frederick
Paradine!
Fouldes
[Handing the cheque.] Now, sir, I think that settles it. Will you exchange my cheque for those bills?
Captain Montgomerie
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