"Challis."
"The same name as the author?"
"He is the author. Titus Scroop is his nom-de-plume. Why do you ask?"
"Because it must be his wife I wrote Mrs. Steptoe's character for last week. Mrs. Alfred Challis, The Hermitage, Wimbledon."
"Oh yes—that would be. How did you know of her?"
"That Mrs. Eldridge—she's a sort of cousin, you know—wrote to see if I knew of a cook."
"But you knew nothing about Mrs. Steptoe's cooking."
"No—but she can try."
"I don't call that conscientious."
"Oh, my dear Yorick? Isn't that just like you now? If everyone was such a dragon, no one would ever do a good-natured action."