ASTON’S DUMMY.
Have you read any amusing novels lately?
TOPSY.
(Speaking over the head of her dummy.) No; I never read novels. They are mostly so frightful, aren’t they?
ASTON.
(Enthusiastically.) How splendid! Neither do I. I only write them sometimes, that’s all. (They abandon their dummies, which fall limply into one another’s arms and collapse on to the floor with an expiring sigh.)
TOPSY.
You write them? I didn’t know. . . .
ASTON.