ROSALINE (_joyously_). He! (_She clasps her hands and listens_.) My heart tells me so! REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (_disagreeably_). It _ain't_ he--because he never rings. So your heart's told you a lie. MRS. SYLVESTER (_off_). Mr. Sylvester--is he in? Not in? What do you mean? REMBRANDT TEMPENNY. Snakes!--it's his Missus. ROSALINE (_passionately_). _Another_ wife? REMBRANDT TEMPENNY. No, it is the same one--do you think he is the Grand Mogul?--but she will be enough for _you_ if she finds you here, and for _me_ too! ROSALINE. I do not fear her. I am doing no harm--I am your Model, brought here by you. REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (_in terror_). Now look here, you know, don't say that; I won't be mixed up in it! I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the matter! I didn't know who you were, or I wouldn't have brought you within a hundred miles of the place. Hark. MRS. SYLVESTER (_off_). I will wait in his studio till he comes. He ought to have been here long ago. REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (_in terror_). _Ought_ he! I won't be seen here--I can't. She is a friend of my wife's. I won't be found in your company. I'm a moral man, and she knows you. ROSALINE (_indignantly_). What? REMBRANDT TEMPENNY. Here, hi, I will be a lay-figure. By George, I've got it--I will be the Mandarin, see! (_He disguises himself with Rosaline's assistance as a Mandarin, and sits cross-legged at back, wagging his head_.) REMBRANDT TEMPENNY. How is that? ROSALINE. Beautiful. Hush! REMBRANDT TEMPENNY. Am I sufficiently impregnated with the Chinese sentiment? ROSALINE. I don't know what you mean. Sh! Here she is. (_Enter_ MRS. SYLVESTER _L_.) MRS. SYLVESTER (_aside_). A young woman--who is this? ROSALINE. Good morning, madam. Who do you wish to see? MRS. SYLVESTER (_with a start_). Can I be deceived? Is it possible you are the--ahem--the person I take you for? ROSALINE. I really don't know who you take me for. My name is Rosaline, and I'm a model. MRS. SYLVESTER. I knew it! How dare you come here--how dare you? Two years ago I forbade you ever to enter my husband's studio again. ROSALINE. I did not know it was your husband's studio when I came. I am here to sit to a friend of his. REMBRANDT TEMPENNY. I'm the friend. MRS. SYLVESTER (_to_ ROSALINE). What did you say? ROSALINE. I did not speak. MRS. SYLVESTER. Now let me quite understand you. Do you mean to say that it was not Mr. Sylvester who brought you here? ROSALINE. Certainly I do. I came to Mr.-- REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (_in terror aside to_ ROSALINE). Mr. Brown. MRS. SYLVESTER. Who did you say? Who is Mr. Brown? ROSALINE. I did not say "Mr. Brown." A gentleman engaged me to sit to him, and told me to come here this morning at ten o'clock. He said he was a friend of Mr. Sylvester's. MRS. SYLVESTER. Then you did know that this was Mr. Sylvester's studio! ROSALINE. I did not. He said it belonged to a friend of his, but did not mention his name. MRS. SYLVESTER (_impatiently_).