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Page 52
LADY OWBRIDGE _appears on the top of the steps._
LADY OWBRIDGE.
Are you here, Duchess?
DUCHESS.
[_Turning to her._] Yes.
LADY OWBRIDGE.
[_Coming down the steps._] Oh, I am really very upset!
DUCHESS.
Upset?
LADY OWBRIDGE.
About your maid. The circumstance has only just been reported to me--you
have lost your maid. [_Seeing_ FRAYNE.] Is that Sir Chichester? [FRAYNE
_advances and shakes hands._] I didn't observe you, in the dusk. Have
you seen Henry? I wonder if he is waiting for us in the drawing-room?
FRAYNE.
May I go and hunt for him?
LADY OWBRIDGE.
It would be kind of you.
[FRAYNE _goes up the steps and away._ MRS. EDEN _comes to the stone
bench._ MURIEL _returns slowly, coming from among the trees and
appearing on the further side of the low hedge._
DUCHESS.
[_To_ LADY OWBRIDGE.] Pray don't be in the least concerned for me, dear
Lady Owbridge; the absence of my maid is quite a temporary matter. Poor
Watson's father is unwell and I packed her off to him this afternoon.
She will be back by mid-day to-morrow, she promises me.
LADY OWBRIDGE.
But, dear me! in the meantime my own woman shall wait upon you.
DUCHESS.
I couldn't dream of it.
MRS. EDEN.
Why not my Gilchrist--or let us share her?
DUCHESS.
No, no; the housemaid who assisted me into this gown--
LADY OWBRIDGE.
Chalmers? well, there's Chalmers, certainly. But I fear that Chalmers
has hot hands. Or Denham--no, Denham is suffering from a bad knee. Of
course, there's Bruce! Bruce is painfully near-sighted--but would
Bruce do? Or little Atkins--?
SOPHY.
[_Stepping from behind the bench, and confronting_ LADY OWBRIDGE--_in a
quiet voice._] Or I, my lady?
LADY OWBRIDGE.
You, my dear?
SOPHY.
Why shouldn't _I_ attend upon her Grace to-night and in the morning?
[_With half a courtesy to the_ DUCHESS.] I should dearly like to have
the honour.
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