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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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My dear, you must bear up. We must all hope for the best.
George
But there is no best. Whatever happens, it means disgrace and dishonour. How could he? How could he?
Lady Kelsey
No one knows your father as I do, George. I'm sure he's never been anything but thoughtless and foolish.
George
Of course he's not been actually criminal. That's absurd. But it's bad enough as it is.
Mrs. Crowley
You mustn't take it too much to heart. In another half-hour at the utmost your father will be here with everything cleared up, and you'll be able to go back to Oxford with a clear conscience.
George
D'you think I can go to Oxford again when my father has been tried for forgery? No, no! No, no! I'd rather shoot myself.
Lady Kelsey
My poor boy… Where have you been all day?
George
Heaven knows! I've walked through the streets till I'm dog-tired. Oh, the suspense is too awful. My feet carried me to the Old Bailey, and I would have given anything to go in and see how things were going, but I'd promised the Pater I wouldn't.
Lady Kelsey
How did he look this morning?
George
He was most awfully worn and ill. I don't believe he'll ever get over it. I saw his counsel before the case began. They told me it was bound to come all right.
Mrs. Crowley
Is there anything in the evening papers?
George
I haven't dared to look. The placards are awful.
Carbery
Why, what do they say?
George
Can't you imagine? "Gentleman charged with forgery." "County gentleman at the Old Bailey." And all the rest of it. Damn them! Damn them!
Lady Kelsey
It may be all over by now.
George
I feel that I shall never sleep again. I couldn't close my eyes last night. To think that one's own father…
Lady Kelsey
For goodness' sake be quiet.
George
[Starting.] There's a ring at the bell.
Lady Kelsey
I've given orders that no one is to be admitted but Dick Lomas and Bobbie.
Mrs. Crowley
It must be finished by now. It's one or the other of them come to tell you the result.
Lady Kelsey
Oh, I'm so frightfully anxious.
George
Aunt, you don't think…
Lady Kelsey
No, no, of course not. They must find him not guilty.
[The Butler enters followed by Dick Lomas, a clean-shaven dapper man, with a sharp face and good-natured smile. He is between thirty-five and forty, but slim and youthful. With him comes Sir Robert Boulger, Lady Kelsey's nephew, a good-looking, spruce youth of twenty-two.
Butler
Mr. Lomas, Sir Robert Boulger.
George
[Excitedly.] Well, well? For God's sake tell us quickly.
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