VON RETTENMAYER. Miss Mongreiff! [_Kissing ENID'S hand with fervour._] Your dancing was more zurprizing to-night than ever. [_To TAVISH and SHIRLEY._] Aha, my friends! ENID. [_Shaking hands with HENEAGE, GRIMWOOD, and DE CASTRO._] Well, Stew! How are you, Jerry! Sam! FULKERSON. I want to introdooce Lord Farncombe. Miss Moncreiff-- Lord Farncombe. ROPER. [_Hurrying across._] Hul-lo, here's Enid! DE CASTRO. [_Shaking hands with TAVISH and SHIRLEY._] Piethe went thplendidly thith evenin', didn't it? FULKERSON. [_Shaking hands with TAVISH and SHIRLEY._] I want to introdooce Lord Farncombe. Mr. Tavish-- Mr. Shirley-- Lord Farncombe. ENID. [_Coming forward to greet MRS. STIDULPH who advances to her._] Dolly dear! MRS. STIDULPH. [_Embracing ENID._] Enid darling! Good gracious, you're becoming an absolute skeleton! ENID. Indeed? Well, no one can say that of _you_. MRS. STIDULPH. It _is_ a pleasure, meeting all you girls to-night. Of course, one can't help seeing _changes_. ENID. [_Icily._] Ah, it must be a pleasure, _that_. MRS. STIDULPH. I'm going to scold dear old Carlton by-and-by. He never gave _me_ a birthday-party when I was with him. ENID. No; and you had so many birthdays here, hadn't you? [_COOLING returns, entering from the landing, and, after looking at the assembly, goes out at the right-hand door at the back. At the same moment, FLO CONNIFY, SYBIL DERMOTT, OLGA COOK, and EVANGELINE VENTRIS-- four statuesque beauties with impassive faces-- enter at the door on the left. OLGA is in a dark gown and EVANGELINE is wearing a rather elaborate head-dress. Instantly there is a movement in the direction of the new arrivals on the part of ROPER, HENEAGE, and GRIMWOOD. DE CASTRO and FULKERSON follow, FULKERSON still leading FARNCOMBE about with him. MRS. STIDULPH turns from ENID disdainfully and joins NITA and DAPHNE at the fireplace. TAVISH and SHIRLEY also move to the left, where they come upon STIDULPH and shake hands with him, while VON RETTENMAYER and ENID, the latter flushed with victory, seat themselves upon the settee on the right._ ROPER. [_Hastening to the beauties._] Hul-lo! Show your tickets, please! Room inside for four! [_Shaking hands._] How are you, Flo! How are you, Sybil! How are you, Olga! I _say_, look at 'Vangy! THE FOUR BEAUTIES. [_As the men shake hands with them, mechanically._] How d'ye do? How d'ye do? How d'ye do? How d'ye do? FULKERSON. Here! I want to introdooce Lord Farncombe. Miss Connify-- Lord Farncombe. Miss Dermott-- Miss Cook-- Miss 'Vangy Ventris-- Lord Farncombe. THE FOUR BEAUTIES. [_As before._] How d'ye do? How d'ye do? How d'ye do? How d'ye do? [_COOLING hurries back._ COOLING. [_To everybody._] Miss Parradell! [_Opening the double-door and signalling to the leader of the band._] Now!