[Announcing.] Mr. Puff!
Dangle.
[Advancing to meet him with a smile of the warmest affability.] Ah, my dear friend, we were reading the notice of your tragedy in The World. ’Tis extremely friendly. And as Sir Fretful remarked a moment since, “What pleasure can there be in reading criticisms of people’s plays if they aren’t favourable?”
Puff.
Sir Fretful is most obliging.
Sir Fretful Plagiary.
The Telegraph was somewhat severe, though, eh, Mr. Puff?
Puff.
’Tis very like.
Dangle.