_Enter_ Miss Starkey, _back_.

TRANTO. I'll leave you.

CULVER. You'll find John somewhere about. I shan't be so very long--I
hope. Miss Starkey, kindly take down these two letters. How much time
have we before post goes?

(_Exit_ Tranto, _back_.)

MISS STARKEY. Forty minutes.

CULVER. Excellent.

MISS STARKEY (_indicating some papers which she has brought_). These
things ought to be attended to to-night.

CULVER. Possibly. But they won't be.

MISS STARKEY. The Rosenberg matter is very urgent. He leaves for Glasgow
to-morrow.

CULVER. I wish he'd leave for Berlin. I won't touch it to-night. Please
take down these two letters.

MISS STARKEY. Then it will be necessary for you to be at the office at
9.30 in the morning.

CULVER. I decline to be at the office at 9.30 in the morning.