[_Inclining her head._] Helping me. He--he---- [_Raising her eyes defiantly and confronting them all._] _Ecoutez!_ Robbie Roope has asked who is the actual tenant of the cellar and room in Carmichael Lane. [_Breathing deeply._] _I_ am. LADY FILSON. [_Advancing a few steps._] _You_ are! N-n-nonsense! OTTOLINE. Mr. Westrip took the place for me--my arrangement with Titterton made it necessary---- LADY FILSON. With Titterton! Then he--he _has_----? OTTOLINE. Yes. The thousands of copies--packed in the cases with the lying labels--_I_ have bought them--they're mine---- LADY FILSON. Y-y-yours! OTTOLINE. I--I was afraid the book had failed--and I went to Titterton--and bargained with him---- LADY FILSON. So--so everything--everything that your brother and Mr.--Mr. Dunning have surmised----? OTTOLINE. Everything, mother--except that I am the culprit, and Mr. Mackworth is the victim. LADY FILSON. Ottoline----! OTTOLINE. [_Passing her hand over her brow._] It--it's horrible of me to give Titterton away--but--what can I do?--[_She turns her back upon them sharply and, leaning against the table, searches for her handkerchief._] Oh! Need Mr. Dunning stay----? [BERTRAM, _aghast, nudges_ DUNNING _and hurries to the vestibule door._ DUNNING _follows him into the vestibule on tiptoe. Slowly and deliberately_ PHILIP _moves to the middle of the room and stands there with his hands clenched, glaring into space._ SIR RANDLE, _his jaw falling, sits in the chair on the extreme left._ LADY FILSON. [_Touching_ PHILIP_'s arm sympathetically._] Oh, Philip----! DUNNING. [_To_ BERTRAM, _in a whisper._] Phiou! Rummy development this, Mr. Filson! BERTRAM. [_To_ DUNNING, _in the same way._] Awful. [_Opening the outer door._] I--I'll see you in the m-m-morning. DUNNING. Pleasure. [_Raising his voice._] Evening, ladies and gentlemen. LADY FILSON. [_Again sitting on the settee on the left, also searching for her handkerchief._] G-g-good night. SIR RANDLE. [_Weakly._] Good night. ROOPE. [_Who has wandered to the bookcase like a man in a trance._] Good night.