Curph. (making a note). Very well. I will see you have a box for that evening, and I hope you will manage to go. But there's a train coming in—I must really be off. Good-bye, Sir, and very many thanks for the kind and generous way in which you have treated me. I am very glad we have had this explanation, and thoroughly understand one another. Good-bye—good-bye!
[He shakes Mr. Toovey's hand with cordial gratitude, and rushes out.
Mr. Toov. (looking after him in some mystification). A most high-minded young man, but a little too officious. And I don't understand why he makes such a point of my going to this Eldorado now. But, if I do go, I mayn't see anything to disapprove of; and, if I don't, I shall keep the shares—whether he likes it or not. He may be a very worthy young man, but I doubt whether he's quite a man of the world!
End of Scene V.
A STUDY IN PRESS-LAND.
(An Actuality, in one short Scene, at the service of the Institute of Journalists.)
Scene—An Editor's Room. Editor discovered in conversation with Would-be Reporter.
Editor (preparing to resume his work). Well, from all you tell me, I imagine you must be a most accomplished person.
Would-be Reporter (smiling). Well, I believe I am up to the standard required by the Institute of Journalists. My classics are fairly good, but I do not know as much as I should of mixed mathematics. However, I took a double first at Oxford; but then I had a particularly easy year. All the men against me were practically duffers.