Scene + 

VI + 

Lady Flumm’s drawing-room. Lady Flumm at the writing-table. Mrs. Fubsey at work on a sofa. + 

Enter Lord Flumm and Turnstile. + 

Lord Flumm + 

Lady Flumm, this is Mr. Turnstile, whom you have so long wished to know. Mr. Turnstile⁠—Lady Flumm. + 

Lady Flumm + 

The Mr. Turnstile. My dear sir, I am too happy to see you. We had just been speaking of your delightful book. Selina! Calling. Enter Lady Selina. This is Mr. Turnstile. + 

Lady Selina + 

Indeed! + 

Lady Flumm + 

Yes, indeed! You see he is a mortal man after all. Bring me, my love, the book you will find open on the table in the boudoir. I wish to show Mr. Turnstile the passages I have marked this morning. + 

Lady Selina + 

Returning with the book, and running over the leaves. “Lace made by caterpillars.”⁠—“Steam-engines with fairy fingers.”⁠—“Robe of nature.”⁠—“Sun of science.”⁠—“Faltering worshipper.”⁠—“Altar of truth.” It is, indeed, delightful! The taste, the poetical imagination, are surprising. I hope, Mr. Turnstile⁠—indeed I am sure, that you love music? + 

Turnstile + 

Not very particularly, I must acknowledge smiling; a barrel-organ is the instrument most in my way. + 

Lady Flumm + 

Smiling. Music and machinery, Mr. Turnstile. Polite literature and mathematics. You do know how to combine. Others must judge of the profounder parts of your works; but the style, and the fancy, are what I should most admire.⁠—You dine with Lord Flumm, he tells me, on Tuesday. Now you must come to me on Thursday night. + 

Turnstile + 

I am sorry to say, that, on recollection, I ought to have apologized to Lord Flumm. The Pottery Question stands for Tuesday; and I should be there, as one of the Committee; and Thursday, your Ladyship knows, is the second reading of the Place and Pension Bill. + 

Lady Flumm + 

Oh, we are Staffordshire people! that will excuse you to the pottery folks; and, for Thursday, I will absolutely take no excuse. We have Pasta and Donzelli! perhaps a quadrille afterwards⁠—(you dance, Mr. Turnstile?)⁠—and Lady Sophia C⁠⸺ and her cousin, Lord F⁠⸺, have said so much about those beautiful passages at the end of your book, that they will be quite disappointed if I do not keep my promise to introduce them. Touching his arm with her finger. + 

Turnstile + 

Your Ladyship knows how to conquer: I feel that I cannot refuse. + 

Exit. + 