GRACE. Oh, but Philip has succeeded in keeping everything as quiet as possible. SUDLEY. [_Acidly._] No, my dear! He has not succeeded in keeping his former wife as quiet as possible. We had not been in Cairo a week when who should turn up but Vida Phillimore. She went everywhere and did everything no woman should! GRACE. [_With unfeigned interest._] Oh, what did she do? SUDLEY. She "did" Cleopatra at the tableaux at Lord Errington's! She "did" Cleopatra, and she did it robed only in some diaphanous material of a nature so transparent that--in fact she appeared to be draped in moonshine. [MISS HENEAGE _indicates the presence of_ GRACE _and rises._] That was only the beginning. As soon as she heard of Philip's engagement, she gave a dinner in honour of it! Only divorcees were asked! And she had a dummy--yes, my dear, a dummy!--at the head of the table. He stood for Philip--that is he sat for Philip! [_Rising and moving to the table._ MISS HENEAGE. [_Irritated and disgusted._] Ah! MRS. PHILLIMORE. [_With dismay and pain._] Dear me! MISS HENEAGE. [_Confident of the value of her opinion._] I disapprove of Mrs. Phillimore. SUDLEY. [_Taking a cigarette._] Of course you do, but has Philip taken to Egyptian cigarettes in order to celebrate my winter at Cairo? GRACE. Those are Cynthia's. SUDLEY. [_Thinking that no one is worth knowing whom he does not know._] Who is "Cynthia?" GRACE. Mrs. Karslake--She's staying here, Cousin William. She'll be down in a minute. SUDLEY. [_Shocked._] You don't mean to tell me--?--! MISS HENEAGE. Yes, William, Cynthia is Mrs. Karslake--Mrs. Karslake has no New York house. I disliked the publicity of a hotel in the circumstances, and, accordingly, when she became engaged to Philip, I invited her here. SUDLEY. [_Suspicious and distrustful._] And may I ask _who_ Mrs. Karslake is? MISS HENEAGE. [_With confidence._] She was a Deane. SUDLEY. [_Walking about the room, sorry to be obliged to concede good birth to any but his own blood._] Oh, oh--well, the Deanes are extremely nice people. [_Approaching the table._] Was her father J. William Deane? MISS HENEAGE. [_Nodding, still more secure._] Yes. SUDLEY. [_Giving in with difficulty._] The family is an old one. J. William Deane's daughter? Surely he left a very considerable-- MISS HENEAGE. Oh, fifteen or twenty millions. SUDLEY. [_Determined not to be dazzled._] If I remember rightly she was brought up abroad. MISS HENEAGE. In France and England--and I fancy brought up with a very gay set in very gay places. In fact she is what is called a "sporty" woman. SUDLEY. [_Always ready to think the worst._] We might put up with that. But you don't mean to tell me Philip has the--the--assurance to marry a woman who has been divorced by-- MISS HENEAGE. Not at all. Cynthia Karslake divorced her husband. SUDLEY. [_Gloomily, since he has less fault to find than he expected._] She divorced him! Ah! [_He seeks the consolation of his tea._