de Reves: Four million people or so made him Lord Mayor, didn't they? And he represents to them the wealth and dignity and tradition of——

Prattle: Yes; but, I say, what has all this——

de Reves: Well, he stands for an idea to them, and they made him Lord Mayor, and so he is one....

Prattle: Well, of course he is.

de Reves: In the same way Pan has been made what he is by millions; by millions to whom he represents world-old traditions.

Prattle (rising from his chair and stepping backwards, laughing and looking at the Poet in a kind of assumed wonder): I say ... I say ... You old heathen ... but Good Lord ...

[He bumps into the high screen behind, pushing it back a little.

de Reves: Look out! Look out!

Prattle: What? What's the matter?

de Reves: The screen!