[SIR WEBLEY _and_ NEEKS[6] _laugh heartily._
NEEKS: He'd ... He'd have to be a magician for that, wouldn't he?
SIR WEBLEY: Ha, ha! Very good! He'd have to be a magician to do that,
Trundleben.
TRUNDLEBEN: Yes, indeed, Sir Webley; indeed he would, Mr. Neeks.
SIR WEBLEY: But that stage direction is priceless. I'd really like to
copy that down if you'd let me. What is it? "The sea with a ship"? It's
the funniest bit of the lot.
TRUNDLEBEN: Yes, that's it, Sir Webley. Wait a moment, I have it here.
The--the whole thing is "the sea with a ship, afterwards an island."
Very funny indeed.
SIR WEBLEY: "Afterwards an island"! That's very good, too. "Afterwards
an island." I'll put that down also. (_He writes._) And what else,
Trundleben? What else?
[TRUNDLEBEN _holds out his list again._
TRUNDLEBEN: "The Tragedy of--of King Richard the--the Second."
SIR WEBLEY: But _was_ his life a tragedy? _Was_ it a tragedy, Neeks?
NEEKS: I--I--well I'm not quite sure; I really don't think so. But I'll
look it up.
SIR WEBLEY: Yes, we can look it up.
TRUNDLEBEN: I think it was rather--perhaps _rather_ tragic, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: Oh, I don't say it wasn't. No doubt. No doubt at all. That's
one thing. But to call his whole life a tragedy is--is quite another.
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