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THE PRIME MINISTER
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Margaret.
I'm afraid he did. [With emotion.] He would have died for me.

Peggy.
And did he?

Margaret.
[Checking emotion, laughing a little.] Not that exactly.

Peggy.
[With an air of great mystery.] Did the foreigners kill him?

Margaret.
[Changed voice, putting the child down.] No, not the foreigners.

Peggy.
Lucy says the foreigners want to kill my papa.

Margaret.
[With a start.] Who is Lucy?

Peggy.
Nursie. Lucy hates the foreigners. So do I. [Lifting her little finger in Margaret's face and assuming an air of mystery.] They get into houses, and do things, terrible things, shocking things. Lucy says cook must be a foreigner—'cause she's always poisoning us with roly-poly pudding.

[Margaret laughs. Lady Dorothy Nugent enters by upper door, L. Margaret rises.

Margaret.
Lady Dorothy?