I do; but there are so many things to remember.
LORD LOAM (sympathetically). There are--(in a whisper). Do you know,
Mary, I constantly find myself secreting hairpins.
LADY MARY. I find it so difficult to go up steps one at a time.
LORD LOAM. I was dining with half a dozen members of our party last
Thursday, Mary, and they were so eloquent that I couldn't help
wondering all the time how many of their heads he would have put in
the bucket.
LADY MARY. I use so many of his phrases. And my appetite is so
scandalous. Father, I usually have a chop before we sit down to
dinner.
LORD LOAM. As for my clothes--(wriggling). My dear, you can't think
how irksome collars are to me nowadays.
LADY MARY. They can't be half such an annoyance, father, as--(She
looks dolefully at her skirt.)
LORD LOAM (hurriedly). Quite so--quite so. You have dressed early
to-night, Mary.
LADY MARY. That reminds me; I had a note from Brocklehurst saying
that he would come a few minutes before his mother as--as he wanted
to have a talk with me.
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