Part 4 (2/2)

DRUMMLE.

[_Hurrying to the door._] My dear fellow, my jabbering has disturbed you! I'll never talk again as long as I live!

MISQUITH.

Close the door, Cayley.

[DRUMMLE _shuts the door._

JAYNE.

Cayley----

DRUMMLE.

[_Advancing to the dinner table._] A smoke, a smoke, or I peris.h.!.+

[_Selects a cigar from the little cabinet._

JAYNE.

Cayley, marriages are in the air.

DRUMMLE.

Are they? Discover the bacillus, doctor, and destroy it.

JAYNE.

I mean, among our friends.

DRUMMLE.

Oh, Nugent Warrinder's engagement to Lady Alice Tring. I've heard of that. They're not to be married till the spring.

JAYNE.

Another marriage that concerns us a little takes place to-morrow.

DRUMMLE.

Whose marriage?

JAYNE.

Aubrey's.

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