Enter LATIMER.

LATIMER. What, Leonard, all alone?

NICHOLAS. I say, you’re the very man we want.

LEONARD (frowning——). S’sh.

LATIMER. Leonard, don’t “s’sh” Nicholas when he wants to speak to me.

NICHOLAS (to LEONARD). It’s all right, old chap, Latimer is a sportsman.

LATIMER (to LEONARD). There! You see the sort of reputation I have in the West End. (To NICHOLAS) What is it you want to do? Run away?

LEONARD. Well—er——

NICHOLAS. I say, however did you guess?

LATIMER. Leonard’s car has had steam up for the last twenty-four hours, waiting for a word from its owner.