LADY KELSEY. It may be all over by now. GEORGE. I feel that I shall never sleep again. I couldn't close my eyes last night. To think that one's own father.... LADY KELSEY. For goodness' sake be quiet. GEORGE. [_Starting._] There's a ring at the bell. LADY KELSEY. I've given orders that no one is to be admitted but Dick Lomas and Bobbie. MRS. CROWLEY. It must be finished by now. It's one or the other of them come to tell you the result. LADY KELSEY. Oh, I'm so frightfully anxious. GEORGE. Aunt, you don't think.... LADY KELSEY. No, no, of course not. They _must_ find him not guilty. [_The_ BUTLER _enters followed by_ DICK LOMAS, _a clean-shaven dapper man, with a sharp face and good-natured smile. He is between thirty-five and forty, but slim and youthful. With him comes_ SIR ROBERT BOULGER, LADY KELSEY'S _nephew, a good-looking, spruce youth of twenty-two_. BUTLER. Mr. Lomas, Sir Robert Boulger. GEORGE. [_Excitedly._] Well, well? For God's sake tell us quickly. DICK. My dear people, I have nothing to tell. GEORGE. Oh! [_He staggers with sudden faintness and falls to the floor._ DICK. Hulloa! What's this? MRS. CROWLEY. Poor boy! [_They crowd round him._ GEORGE. It's all right. What a fool I am! I was so strung up. DICK. You'd better come to the window. [_He and_ BOULGER _take the boy's arms and lead him to the window_. GEORGE _leans against the balcony_. CARBERY. I'm afraid I must go away. Every Wednesday at four I read _Little Lord Fauntleroy_ to forty charwomen. LADY KELSEY. Good-bye. And thanks so much for coming. MRS. CROWLEY. [_Shaking hands with him._] Good-bye. A clergyman always helps one so much to bear other people's misfortunes. [CARBERY _goes out, and in a moment_ ROBERT BOULGER _comes back into the room_. LADY KELSEY. Is he better? BOULGER. Oh, much. He'll be all right in a minute. [LADY KELSEY _goes to the window, and he turns to_ MRS. CROWLEY.] You are a brick to come here to-day, when they're all in such awful trouble. MRS. CROWLEY. [_With a little hesitation._] Did you really come away before the trial was ended? BOULGER. Why, of course. What did you think? You don't imagine they'll convict him? MRS. CROWLEY. It's too dreadful. BOULGER. Where is Lucy? I was hoping to get a glimpse of her. MRS. CROWLEY. I wouldn't trouble her to-day if I were you. I think she most wants to be left alone. BOULGER. I wanted to tell her that if I could do anything at all, she had only to command. MRS. CROWLEY. I think she knows that. But I'll give her the message if you like.... You're very devoted. BOULGER. I've been madly in love with her ever since I was ten. MRS. CROWLEY. Take care then. There's nothing so tedious as the constant lover.