GRACE. I told the Dudleys Philip's wedding was here, to-morrow. MISS HENEAGE. [_To_ MRS. PHILLIMORE, _picking up a sheet of paper from the table._] I have spent the afternoon, Mary, in arranging and listing the wedding gifts, and in writing out the announcements of the wedding. I think I have attained a proper form of announcement. [_Taking the sheet of note-paper and giving it to_ THOMAS.] Of course the announcement Philip himself made was quite out of the question. [GRACE _smiles._] However, there is mine. [_She points to the paper._ THOMAS _gives the list to_ MRS. PHILLIMORE _and moves away._ GRACE. I hope you'll send an announcement to the Dudleys. MRS. PHILLIMORE. [_Prepared to make the best of things, plaintively reads._] "Mr. Philip Phillimore and Mrs. Cynthia Dean Karslake announce their marriage, May twentieth, at three o'clock, Nineteen A, Washington Square, New York." [_Replacing the paper on_ THOMAS'S _salver._] It sounds very nice. [THOMAS _returns the paper to_ MISS HENEAGE. MISS HENEAGE. In my opinion it barely escapes sounding nasty. However, it is correct. The only remaining question is--to whom the announcement should not be sent. [THOMAS _goes out._] I consider an announcement of the wedding of two divorced persons to be in the nature of an intimate communication. It not only announces the wedding--it also announces the divorce. [_Returning to her teacup._] The person I shall ask counsel of is cousin William Sudley. He promised to drop in this afternoon. GRACE. Oh! We shall hear all about Cairo. MRS. PHILLIMORE. William is judicious. [THOMAS _returns._ MISS HENEAGE. [_With finality._] Cousin William will disapprove of the match unless a winter in Cairo has altered his moral tone. THOMAS. [_Announcing._] Mr. Sudley. _He ushers in_ WILLIAM SUDLEY, _a little oldish gentleman. He is and appears thoroughly insignificant. But his opinion of the place he occupies in the world is enormous. His manners, voice, presence, are all those of a man of breeding and self-importance._ MRS. PHILLIMORE _and_ MISS HENEAGE. [_Rising and greeting_ SUDLEY; _a little tremulously._] My dear William! [THOMAS _withdraws._ SUDLEY. [_Shakes hands with_ MRS. PHILLIMORE, _soberly glad to see them._] How d'ye do, Mary? [_Greeting_ MISS HENEAGE.] A very warm May you're having, Sarah. GRACE. [_Coming forward to welcome him._] Dear Cousin William! MISS HENEAGE. Wasn't it warm in Cairo when you left? _She will have the strict truth, or nothing; still, on account of_ SUDLEY'S _impeccable respectability, she treats him with more than usual leniency._ SUDLEY. [_Sitting down._] We left Cairo six weeks ago, Grace, so I've had no news since you wrote in February that Philip was engaged. [_After a pause._] I need not to say I consider Philip's engagement excessively regrettable. He is a judge upon the Supreme Court bench with a divorced wife--and such a divorced wife!