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 “Punch” lying open on the Chesterfield, picks it up, glances at it and breaks into hearty laughter.

Punch tactless of me. I apologise.

[The door L. opens and and  ''come in, lugging a trunk. They put it down, down stage L.''

It’s a weight.



I’ll leave it to you. If you’ll allow me, I think I'll go out in the garden. We professional men get so little fresh air.

I was extremely interested in what you were saying. These matters of psychology, though perhaps not quite in accordance with the older teachings

[They go into the garden, talking hard,  resigned and bored.

turns to.

I wanted to know Chris’s boy. But I do see she wouldn’t like it’s hers I’m sure it’s a lovely room. You say it’s just as it was?

The night nursery is just a bedroom now.