DOMINIC. How about a nice sprained ankle, sir?
LATIMER. You think that would go well?
DOMINIC. It would avoid any interference with the customary habits at meal-time, sir. There’s a sort of monotony about bread-and-milk; no inspiration about it, sir, whether treated as a beverage or as a comestible.
LATIMER. I hadn’t thought about bread-and-milk.
DOMINIC. You’ll find that you will have little else to think about, sir, if you attempt anything stomachic. Of course you could have the usual nasty cold, sir.
LATIMER. No, no, not that. Let us be original....
DOMINIC. How about Xerostomia, sir? Spelt with an x.
LATIMER. Is that good?
DOMINIC. Joseph tells me that his father has had it for a long time.
LATIMER. Oh! Then perhaps we oughtn’t to deprive him of it.