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 feeling about these things. Oh, but that’s another matter. I love Baldry Court, even if it doesn’t mean to me what it does to you. I’m proud of it Chris has made it beautiful.

It’s a show place now.

However, it doesn’t matter now. Forgive me for being horrid. I’m going up. You’ll come?



[ enters R. with a card on a salver.

Has somebody called?



(She looks at the card.) “Mrs. William Grey, Mariposa, Ladysmith Road, Wealdstone.” I don’t know anyone in Wealdstone loathsome place. It’s a stain on the neighbourhood. Do I know her, Ellen? Has she been here before?



What sort of a person, Ellen? Is she a lady?



( goes.) What an awful card. Printed, not engraved. What can she want? Isn’t it infuriating the people who break into one’s nice, quiet day?