TRUNDLEBEN: Which is by no means true.
SIR WEBLEY: There would naturally be a protest of some sort, and to have
a member of the Olympus mixed up with a controversy like that would
be--er--naturally--er--most ...
TRUNDLEBEN: Yes, of course, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: And then of course, if he does a thing like that once ...
NEEKS: There are probably other lapses just as deplorable.
TRUNDLEBEN: I haven't gone through his whole list, Sir Webley. I often
feel about these modern writers that perhaps the less one looks the less
one will find that might be, er ...
SIR WEBLEY: Yes, quite so.
NEEKS: That is certainly true.
SIR WEBLEY: Well, we can't wade all through his list of characters to
see if they are all suitable to be represented on a stage.
TRUNDLEBEN: Oh no, Sir Webley, quite impossible; there are--there are--I
might say--hundreds of them.
SIR WEBLEY: Good gracious! He must have been wasting his time a great
deal.
TRUNDLEBEN: Oh, a great deal, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: But we shall have to go further into this. We can't have ...
NEEKS: I see Mr. Gleek sitting over there, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: Why, yes, yes, so he is.
NEEKS: The _Banner and Evening Gazette_ would know all about him if
there's anything to know.
SIR WEBLEY: Yes, of course they would.
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