Etchingham.

[To Colonel Boyce.] If he’s not there, you’d better try somewhere else.

James Ford.

[Shouting.] For goodness’ sake let me hear myself speak.

[These speeches are said simultaneously, and immediately afterwards is heard the dull roar of a train passing through the station, and a long, shrill whistle. Etchingham starts nervously.

Etchingham.

Oh, confound those trains.

James Ford.

[Impatiently.] I should have thought you’d got used to them by now.

Etchingham.