Well-inf. V. Why, the Consumption Bacillus. He's got it in that bottle he's holding up.
Unsc. V. And what's the good of it, now he has discovered it?
Well-inf. V. Good? Why, it's the thing that causes consumption, you know!
Unsc. V. Then it's a pity he didn't leave it alone!
Before a Scene representing "The Home Life at Sandringham."
First Old Lady (with Catalogue). It says here that "the note the page is handing may have come from Sir Dighton Probyn, the Comptroller of the Royal Household." Fancy that!
Second Old Lady. He's brought it in in his fingers. Now that's a thing I never allow in my house. I always tell Sarah to bring all letters, and even circulars, in on a tray!
Before a Scene representing the late Fred Archer, on a rather quaint quadruped, on Ascot Racecourse.
A Sportsman. H'm—Archer, eh? Shouldn't have backed his mount in that race!
Before "The Library at Hawarden."