BENHAM. Who is this young woman?
[17]ALICE (giving card). She comes from one of the newspapers.
BENHAM (reading). “Miss Honoria Johns. Contributor to The Queen and other leading journals.” (Contemptuously) What does she want? An interview?
ALICE. She didn’t say, Mr. Benham, but I expect that’s what she wants.
BENHAM. I’ll send her away. Bless you, I had to send hundreds of them away when I was with His Grace.
ALICE (alarmed). Oh, but I don’t think Mr. Broxopp would like that.
BENHAM (staggered). Do you mean to say that he wants to be interviewed?
ALICE. Oh, I’m sure he does. But I suppose he’s gone to his office. Oh no, he hasn’t, because there’s his hat.
BENHAM (scandalised). His hat? Has he only got one hat?
ALICE. Only one that he wears. What the papers call the “Broxopp hat.”