JANET. (Deeply impressed.) Lord Leonard Al ... Where's the letter?
(Searches for it hurriedly. As she reads it.) Well I never!
(Reading) "And Mrs. Shawn." I've got nothing to go in.
CARVE. Oh, I shan't go!
JANET. Why not?
CARVE. Well, what about this trip to the Continent?
JANET. Continent fiddlesticks. I've never been asked to go and see a
Lord before....
CARVE. Now listen, Jane. What earthly good can it do? I shan't go.
JANET. I shall. So there! Six Dukes in the family! I wouldn't miss it
for anything.
CURTAIN.
ACT IV
SCENE I
LORD LEONARD ALCAR'S study, Grosvenor Gardens. Door, back centre.
Door, L. JANET'S portrait is conspicuous on a wall.
TIME.--The next afternoon.
LORD LEONARD ALCAR and MR. TEXEL are coming into the room from
door at back.
ALCAR. You still go on collecting, Mr. Texel?
TEXEL. (Uncertain of his steps.) Well, yes. I've been amusing myself
with pictures for pretty nigh forty years. Why should I deprive myself
of this pleasure merely because my eyesight's gone?
ALCAR.
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