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u're so impatient! PHILIP. [_To_ OTTOLINE.] Tsch, tsch! Go back to the fire and toast your toes again. BERTRAM. I consider I was fully justified, I mean t'say---- [_Falteringly_ OTTOLINE _returns to the fireplace. She stands there for a few seconds, clutching the mantel-shelf, and then subsides into the chair before the fire._ PHILIP _advances to the settee on the right._ PHILIP. [_To_ DUNNING.] Sorry we have checked your flow of eloquence, Mr. Dunning, even for a moment. [_Sitting._] I wouldn't miss a syllable of it. [_Airily._] Do, please, continue. SIR RANDLE. [_Looking at his watch._] My dear Philip----! BERTRAM. [_To_ DUNNING, _wearily._] Oh, come to the man--what's his name, Dunning?--Merryweather----! DUNNING. [_Turning several pages of his note-book with his wet thumb._] Merrifield. BERTRAM. Merrifield. [_Passing behind_ DUNNING _and half-seating himself on the further end of the table on the left._] Skip everything in between; [_sarcastically_] my father and mother are dying for their dinner. LADY FILSON. Bertram! DUNNING. [_Finding the memorandum he is searching for, and quoting from it._] Henry Merrifield--entry clerk to Titterton--left Titterton, after a row, on the fifteenth of the present month---- BERTRAM. A stroke of luck--Mr. Merrifield--if ever there was one! I mean t'say---- DUNNING. [_To everybody._] Having gleaned certain significant facts from the said Henry Merrifield, ladies and gentlemen, [_referring to his notes_] I paid two visits last week to the offices of Messrs. Hopwood & Co., of 6, Carmichael Lane, Walbrook, described in fresh paint on their door as Shipping and General Agents; and the conclusion I arrived at was that Messrs. Hopwood & Co. were a myth and their offices a blind, the latter consisting of a small room on the ground floor, eight foot by twelve, and their staff of the caretakers of the premises--Mr. and Mrs. Sweasy--an old woman and her husband---- ROOPE. [_To_ DUNNING.] If I may venture to interpose again,
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