THE PRIME MINISTER
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Sir Robert.
What inference?
Sir Malcolm.
That she has been watching her opportunity, and
now that the time seems to her to be ripe she has
returned to say so.
Sir Robert.
Then you think the outrage, whatever it is, is to
be perpetrated soon?
Sib Malcolm.
We do.
Sir Robert.
To-night, perhaps?
Sir Malcolm.
Perhaps to-night.
Sir Robert.
You don't know who is the object of it?
Sir Malcolm.
Not certainly.
Sir Robert.
My child possibly?
Sir Malcolm.
Possibly.
Sir Robert.
Or myself?
Sir Malcolm.
More probably. Somebody or something in this
house at all events.
