“You want shome one come with you?”

“Yes.”...

“Share ’spenshes?”

“Yes.”

“You put that ’vertisshment in Morning Posht?”

“Yes.”

“I thought sho. Shorry knock you up. Felt I musht tell you.... that I’m not coming.”...

[16] They would have gone quite mad over the Russian Ballet.

[17] The story in question was of a member of the Cave-Brown-Cave family, who, after conversing with a stranger in a railway-carriage, was asked his name.

“Cave-Brown-Cave,” he replied. “And may I ask yours?”