A lady! What lady? [_Miss Dyott appears at the window. She is in the gorgeous dress of an opera-bouffe Queen, with a flaxen wig much disarranged and a crown on one side. Recoiling. _] Caroline! MISS DYOTT. [_Entering and taking him by the collar._] Come down! [_She drags him towards the window._] END OF THE SECOND ACT. THE THIRD ACT _The scene is a well-furnished, tastefully decorated morning-room in the house of Admiral Rankling. At the further end of the room there are two double doors facing each other, one with glazed panels opening to a conservatory, the other to a dark room. There are also two doors near to the pillars that support an archway spanning the room. All is darkness save for a faint glow from the fire, and a blue light coming through the conservatory windows._ _Peggy, dressed as before, enters quietly, looking about her._ PEGGY. [_In a whisper._] Where have I got to now, I wonder? What a dreadful wilderness of a house to wander about in, in the dark, all alone. Oh, for the daylight! [_Looking at her watch._] Half-past six. Why, gracious! here's a spark of fire! Oh, joy! [_She goes down on her knees, and replenishes the fire with coal from the scuttle. The door opens, and Gwendoline peeps in._] GWENDOLINE. [_In a whisper._] What room is this? [_Entering noiselessly._] Will the day never break? [_Frightened, and retreating as Peggy makes a noise blowing up the fire._] Oh! PEGGY. [_Frightened._] Oh! Who is that? [_Looking around._] Gwendoline! GWENDOLINE. Peggy! PEGGY. Are you wandering about too? GWENDOLINE. Yes. I can't sleep--can you? PEGGY. [_Shivering._] Sleep? no. As if I could sleep in a strange bed in a strange house, in one of Admiral Rankling's night-gowns. You didn't meet any daylight on the stairs, did you? [_Another door opens, and Ermyntrude enters noiselessly._] GWENDOLINE. [_Clinging to Peggy._] Oh, look there! ERMYNTRUDE. [_In a whisper._] I wonder where I am now. PEGGY. Ermyntrude! ERMYNTRUDE. [_Clinging to a chair._] Ah! PEGGY. Be quiet! It's we--it's us--it's her and me! Oh, my grammar's going now! ERMYNTRUDE. Can't you girls get to sleep? GWENDOLINE. I should think not. PEGGY. There wasn't any daylight in your room when you came down, was there? ERMYNTRUDE. I thought I saw a glimmer through the window on the first floor landing. PEGGY. Ah, perhaps that's some of yesterday's. I know! I've made up the fire; let us bivouac here till daybreak. Two by the fire, and take it in turns for the sofa. [_Picking up a bearskin rug and carrying it to the sofa._] Who's first for the sofa? GWENDOLINE. Ermyntrude. ERMYNTRUDE. Gwendoline. PEGGY.