LEONARD. You've found the other people out and that's very much the same thing. I tell you what--you ought to come and live with me and Mary. MRS. TIMBRELL. Nonsense. LEONARD. It would be tremendously fine if you did that. After all these years--it would be magnificent. EDGAR. Is this to go on? TIMBRELL. No. I'm exceedingly sorry, Pendleton, that you and Mrs. Pendleton should be in such a scene. [_To LEONARD._] I'll ask you to leave the house. Mary may stay if she pleases. LEONARD. But I want my dinner. TIMBRELL. You can get your dinner at home. LEONARD. Mary? MARY. There's not much. I'll go with you. PENDLETON. Now look here, Timbrell-- TIMBRELL. Not a word. [_To LEONARD._] And I've something to say to you before you go. LEONARD. I'm afraid it's something nasty. TIMBRELL. Yes, sir. It's something nasty. I've been making you an allowance at the rate of three hundred a year. It will stop at once. LEONARD. [_Alarmed._] Here! You can't do that. TIMBRELL. Can't I? I will. LEONARD. But it wouldn't be cricket. You couldn't possibly do that. How are we to live without it? TIMBRELL. That's your business. LEONARD. You made me marry Mary. It was the condition--the condition was implied-- TIMBRELL. Silence! You forget we are not alone. LEONARD. Oh! What's the use of these disguises? They know all about it. Let us accept what's past. Mrs. Pendleton, I needn't make any apologies. All this must be frightfully interesting to you. Mr. Pendleton, I shall want your help. I put it to you as an honest business man--but you're joking, sir; you're joking. [_LEONARD has become more serious than he has been._] TIMBRELL. You'll see whether I'm joking. MRS. TIMBRELL. Do you intend to punish Mary, too? TIMBRELL. I shall allow her--[_considering_] I shall allow her two pounds a week and see that it is paid to her. MRS. TIMBRELL. What you propose is unfair. You can't do it. TIMBRELL. Perhaps you would like to go and live with them as he proposes? MRS. TIMBRELL. I've no income. You've never paid my wages. TIMBRELL. Wages! MRS. TIMBRELL. Yes, there's something in what these suffrage people say. I'm at your mercy I suppose. So is Leonard, so is Ada. I suppose Edgar is getting out of your clutches. TIMBRELL. Do you think to gain your point by talk like this? MRS. TIMBRELL. No. This is for my own satisfaction. I'm vexed with you. TIMBRELL. You didn't think that I gave any credence to that boy's abominable suggestions? LEONARD. Please don't talk about that now. There's something more serious to consider. MRS. TIMBRELL. Don't talk about it now, either. LEONARD. I don't see how we can talk about anything else. We must have an income. Mr. Pendleton, I appeal to you-- PENDLETON. Nay, let him calm down. TIMBRELL. I shall not calm down. I am perfectly calm. The fellow shall suffer. It will do him good. MRS. TIMBRELL. And Mary and the child must suffer. MRS. PENDLETON. Ah! now, Mr. Timbrell--your grandchild. MARY. He hasn't seen him.