JEM (_whispers aside to KITTY, unobserved; play on both sides; then,
after evidently agreeing on a plan, pretend to treat the matter as a
joke; advancing_): Bravo! Bravissimo! _Capital!_ (_Roars with forced
laughter._)
KITTY: Splendid! I never saw anything so well done! (_Joins her husband
in laughter._)
SIR W.: It's no laughing matter!
JEM: Ha! ha! I daresay not.