"Your hair tickles!" He was still a little cross. I pushed it back.
"I was afraid you might follow those two about and stare at them, and I wanted them to get engaged and——"
Dimbie raised his head. (Jane, followed by the Doctor, had strolled away.) Light broke across his face.
"And they've done it?"
"It is not an elegant way of putting it."
"They've been jolly sharp."
"Dr. Renton has been here over half an hour."
"And where have I been?"
"Studying the encyclopædia. Don't you remember I asked you to find me the sneezy man? Who was he?"
"Nietzsche, a bally German who didn't know what he wanted."