[He goes out.

LATIMER. Lost your luggage. How excessively annoying! (Anxiously) My dear Leonard, what is it?

LEONARD (whose face has been shaping for it for some seconds) A-tish-oo!

LATIMER. At any rate I can find you a handkerchief. (He does so. LEONARD takes it just in time, and sneezes violently again.)

LEONARD. Thank you.

LATIMER. Not at all. That’s a very nasty cold you’ve got. How wise of you to have kept on a dressing-gown.

LEONARD. The only thing I had to put on.

LATIMER. But surely you were travelling in a suit yesterday? I seem to remember a brown suit.

LEONARD. That fool of a man of yours——

LATIMER (distressed). You don’t mean to tell me—— (DOMINIC comes in.) Dominic, what’s this about his lordship’s brown suit?