Dialogue following No. 2

Enter NANNA and THORA

NANNA (pretending not to see ERLING and TORTENSSEN). And they’re so clever, said I — such talented young men — so extraordinarily good-looking, too — and so kind to their poor old mothers!

THORA. And now that they’re going to be raised to the peerage they’ll have nothing to say to a couple of middle-class nobodies like us! (Suddenly.) Oh my goodness, here they are! Oh what have I said!