Mr. Joseph Lebanon.

You don’t understand. I was in the wagonette, tellin’ ’em the story of Tom Bolter and those beastly ducks. I got ’old of a beastly gun and just as I was demonstrating how I shot the fifteen beastly birds——

Lady Twombley.

It went off!

Mr. Joseph Lebanon.

Well! Don’t make such a fuss about it!

Lady Twombley.

Ah! and it was pointed at Sir Colin!

Mr. Joseph Lebanon.

Pointed at him! No! His legs were stuck right in the way.