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What can they do to us?
LUKYN.
At the worst, take our names and addresses, and summon us for being here during prohibited hours.
AGATHA POSKET.
Oh!
CHARLOTTE.
[_To VALE._] Horace, can't you speak?
VALE.
By Jove, I very much regret this.
_ISIDORE enters._
LUKYN.
Well, well?
ISIDORE.
I beg your pardon, the police have come in.
LUKYN.
The devil! [_To AGATHA POSKET._] My dear lady, don't faint at such a moment.
_BLOND enters quickly, carrying a rug._
BLOND.
They are going over the house! Hide!
AGATHA POSKET AND CHARLOTTE.
Oh!
[_There is a general commotion._
BLOND.
They have put a man at the back. Keep away from the window. [_They are all bustling, and everybody is talking in whispers; LUKYN places AGATHA POSKET under the table, where she is concealed by the cover; he gets behind the overcoats hanging from the pegs; VALE and CHARLOTTE crouch down behind sofa._] Thank you very much. I am going to put Isidore to bed on the sofa. That will explain the light which has just gone out. [_ISIDORE quietly places himself upon the sofa; BLOND covering him with the rug._] Thank you very much.
[_He goes out._
AGATHA POSKET.
[_In a stifled voice._] Charley! Charley!
CHARLOTTE.
Yes.
AGATHA POSKET.
Where are you?
CHARLOTTE.
Here.
AGATHA POSKET.
Oh, where is Captain Vale?
CHARLOTTE.
I think he's near me.
VALE.
By Jove, Charlotte, I am!
AGATHA POSKET.
Colonel Lukyn!
LUKYN.
[_From behind the coats._] Here, madam!
AGATHA POSKET.
Don't leave us.
LUKYN.
Madam, I am a soldier.
CHARLOTTE.
[_To VALE._] Oh, Horace, at such a moment what a comfort we must be to each other.
VALE.
