"Well!" said Francis Brown, Viscount Montacute, to the Marquis of Dorchester.
"What?"
"Is it possible?"
"What?"
"The Laughing Man!"
"Who is the Laughing Man?"
"Don't you know the Laughing Man?"
"No."
"He is a clown, a fellow performing at fairs. He has an extraordinary face, which people gave a penny to look at. A mountebank."
"Well, what then?"