Tell me, Mr Griffith, is it true that you recite “The Relief at Lucknow” each night before you go to bed?
D. G.
Not now. I am reciting the Iliad now. Can’t you see the battlements of Troy with Helen looking down from her tower—the ruinous face—
W. P. E.
Registering?
D. G.
Again a hit! But I shall overcome it. I shall show you Scamander rising from his bed, and the gods on high Olympus—
W. P. E.
With a close-up of the beard of Zeus?
D. G.