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RhACT I. LADY STUTFIELD It must be terribly, terribly distressing to be in debt.

LORD ALFRED One must have some occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. All the chaps I know are in debt.

LADY STUTFIELD But don't the people to whom you owe the money give you a great, great deal of annoyance?

[Enter Footman.]

LORD ALFRED Oh no, they write; I don't.

LADY STUTFIELD How very, very strange.

LADY HUNSTANTON Ah, here is a letter, Caroline, from dear Mrs. Arbuthnot. She won't dine. I am so sorry. But she will come in the evening. I am very pleased indeed. She is one of 31