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SCENE: LORD BELVOIR'S rooms in Half Moon Street, three months later. Morning. Enter NOSEGAY with a large scent-spray with a rubber grip; he works carefully round the room, spraying curtains, carpet, chairs, chesterfield and cushions. The room has two windows in the back wall, facing the audience and looking on to the street; against the right wall is a Bechstein grand with the stool at the far end, so that, sitting at the piano, you have your back to the window wall and look into the room. There are a few gilt upholstered chairs, a chesterfield near the fireplace to the left, several comfortable arm-chairs, a centre table with a few books, a book-case against the wall opposite the fireplace, and on the wall the landscape of Oliver Bath, and several water-colours. After spraying almost every article in the room except the piano, NOSEGAY carefully closes the windows. Suddenly a ring is heard, and he goes out, returning in a few moments preceded by the HON. RUPERT CLAVELLY, a fresh looking young man of about thirty, with a cheerful air. CLAVELLY lifts his head as he enters as if secretly apprehensive of some invisible presence. He does this so adroitly that an eye-witness could hardly describe his action as a sniff.
NOSEGAY. I will tell his lordship you are here.