Pop-op-op-op-BANG!
“If you please’m, Mrs. Jameson has rung up to say, could you lunch with her to-day at one-thirty?”
“I suppose you didn’t think of telling her I was in bed?” you suggest.
“No, m’m, I thought you might wish to speak to her yourself.”
You doze.
Pop——pop (very gently). Jane enters.
“Please’m, did you telephone for the fish?”
Any amateur can supply the answer to this question.