FIRST MAN [shaking hands with the man and the woman] Well! Who’d have thought of meeting you here!
WOMAN. Or you, as far as that goes. We thought you were living in Putney.
FIRST MAN. So I am. It just happened that I’d run over this morning.
[Enter R. a nebula, spinning slowly. It passes majestically across the background as the scene proceeds.]
SECOND MAN. The world’s a very small place.
FIRST MAN. Ah! You’re right, it is.
WOMAN. And how’s the family?
FIRST MAN. Capital, thanks. Yours well, too, I hope?
WOMAN. All except Johnnie.
[Enter R. a group of prehistoric animals; a few brontosauri, titanotheres, mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers, and so on.]