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Rh  I'm afraid he did. [With emotion.] He would have died for me.  And did he?  [Checking emotion, laughing a little.] Not that exactly.  [With an air of great mystery.] Did the foreigners kill him?  [Changed voice, putting the child down.] No, not the foreigners.  Lucy says the foreigners want to kill my papa.  [With a start.] Who is Lucy?

 Nursie. Lucy hates the foreigners. So do I. [Lifting her little finger in face and assuming an air of mystery.] They get into houses, and do things, terrible things, shocking things. Lucy says cook must be a foreigner—'cause she's always poisoning us with roly-poly pudding. [ laughs. enters by upper door, L.  rises.  Lady Dorothy?