Ha! Ha! This is my revenge, Vere Queckett! To-night I will dance more wildly, more demonstratively than ever! QUECKETT. I forbid it! MISS DYOTT. _You_ forbid it! _You_ dictate to Constance Delaporte--the hit of the opera! I am Queen Honorine! [_She slaps her hands and sings with great abandonment, and in the pronounced manner of the buffo queen, the song she is supposed to sing in Bernstein's opera. Singing._]= ````'Rine, 'Rine, Honorine! ````Mighty, whether wife or queen; ````Firmer ruler never seen, ```Than 'Rine, 'Rine! La!= QUECKETT. [_Indignantly._] I will write to my married sisters! MISS DYOTT. Do--and I will call upon them! [_Singing._] = ````Man's a boasting, fretting fumer, ````Smoking alcohol consumer, ````Quick of temper, ill of humour!= QUECKETT. Oh, you shall sing this to my family! MISS DYOTT. I will! [_Singing with her hands upon her hips._]= ````Woman has no petty vices, ````Cuts her sins in good thick slices, ````With a smile that sweet and nice is!= QUECKETT. [_ Writhing._] Oh! MISS DYOTT. [_Boisterously._] Refrain! [_Singing and dancing._]= ````'Rine, 'Rine, Honorine! ````Mighty, whether wife or queen, ````Firmer ruler never seen, ````Than 'Rine, 'Rine! La!= [_ With a burst of hysterical laughter she sinks into a chair. _] QUECKETT. Oh, I will tell my brother of you! [_Daylight appears through the conservatory doors. Mrs. Rankling and Dinah enter. Mallory and Peggy enter from conservatory "spooning."_] MRS. RANKLING. My dear Mrs Queckett, I owe everything to you,--my treatment of the dear Admiral has had wonderful results. What do you think! The Admiral and Mr. Paulover are quite reconciled and understand each other perfectly. [_Rankling and Paulover enter, glaring at each other and quarrelling violently in undertones._] Look--the Admiral already regards him as his own child. [_Saunders, Ermyntrude, and Gwendoline enter and join Peggy and Mallory._] DINAH. [_Sobbing._] But we are to be separated for five years. Oh, Reggie, you trust me implicitly, don't you? REGINALD. [_Fiercely._] I do. And that is why I warn you never to let me hear of you addressing another man. DINAH. Oh, Reggie! [_They embrace._] RANKLING. Don't do that! You don't see me behaving in that way to Mrs. Rankling--and we've been married for years. MRS. RANKLING. [_To Dinah._] But you and Mr. Paulover are to be allowed to meet once every quarter. REGINALD. Yes--in the presence of Admiral Rankling and a policeman! [_Mrs. Rankling, Rankling, Dinah and Reginald join the others.--Otto Bernstein enters quickly and excitedly, carrying a quantity of newspapers. _] BERNSTEIN. I beg your pardon. I must see Miss Constance Delaporte--I mean, Miss Dyott. MISS DYOTT. Mr. Bernstein. BERNSTEIN.