GERVASE. It's very kind of you. I really must apologise for bothering you like this. I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
MR. KNOWLE. Not at all. Are you going far?
GERVASE. Collingham. I live at Little Malling, about twenty miles away. Do you know it?
MR. KNOWLE. Yes. I've been through it. I didn't know it was as far away as that.
GERVASE (with a laugh). Well, perhaps only by the way I came. The fact is I've lost myself rather.
MR. KNOWLE. I'm afraid you have. Collingham. You oughtn't to have come within five miles of us.
GERVASE. I suppose I oughtn't.
MR. KNOWLE. Well, all the more reason for having a drink now that you are here.
GERVASE. It's awfully kind of you.
ALICE comes in.