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RTRAM, _aghast, nudges_ DUNNING _and hurries to the vestibule door._ DUNNING _follows him into the vestibule on tiptoe. Slowly and deliberately_ PHILIP _moves to the middle of the room and stands there with his hands clenched, glaring into space._ SIR RANDLE, _his jaw falling, sits in the chair on the extreme left._ LADY FILSON. [_Touching_ PHILIP_'s arm sympathetically._] Oh, Philip----! DUNNING. [_To_ BERTRAM, _in a whisper._] Phiou! Rummy development this, Mr. Filson! BERTRAM. [_To_ DUNNING, _in the same way._] Awful. [_Opening the outer door._] I--I'll see you in the m-m-morning. DUNNING. Pleasure. [_Raising his voice._] Evening, ladies and gentlemen. LADY FILSON. [_Again sitting on the settee on the left, also searching for her handkerchief._] G-g-good night. SIR RANDLE. [_Weakly._] Good night. ROOPE. [_Who has wandered to the bookcase like a man in a trance._] Good night. [DUNNING _disappears, and_ BERTRAM _closes the outer door and comes back into the room. Shutting the vestibule door, he sinks into the chair lately vacated by_ DUNNING. _There is a silence, broken at length by a low, grating laugh from_ PHILIP. PHILIP. Ha, ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha----! LADY FILSON. [_Dolefully._] Oh, Ottoline--Ottoline----! PHILIP. Ha, ha, ha----! OTTOLINE. [_Creeping to the nearer end of the writing-table._] H'ssh! H'ssh! Philip--Philip----! PHILIP. [_Loudly._] Ho, ho, ho----! OTTOLINE. Don't! don't! [_Making a movement of entreaty towards him._] Phil--Phil----! [_His laughter ceases abruptly and he looks her full in the face._ PHILIP. [_After a moment's pause, bitingly._] Thank you--thank you--[_turning from her and seating himself in the chair by the smoking-table and resting his chin on his fist_] thank you. [_Again there is a pause, and then_ OTTOLINE
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