CLERK
I'm afraid I have to be going on. It's rather later than I thought.
CALLER
But for goodness sake don't leave me. You can't leave me here like this without a hat.
CLERK
I'm afraid I must, it's later than I thought.
(Exit)
[Enter the Poet.
CALLER
Excuse me, sir. Excuse my stopping you. But I should be immensely obliged to you if you would do me a very great favor. I have unfortunately left my hat behind while calling at this house. It is half under the long sofa, at the far end. If you could possibly be so kind as to pretend you have come to tune the piano and fetch my hat for me I should be enormously grateful to you.