NEEKS: Yes, yes, yes. Long hair and all that.
TRUNDLEBEN: Well then, what does Mr. Newton do but go and second him, and there you are, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: Yes, a pretty state of things. Has he ... Does he ... What is he?
TRUNDLEBEN: He seems to write, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: Oh, he does, does he? What does he write?
TRUNDLEBEN: Well, I wrote and asked him that, Sir Webley, and _he_ said plays.
SIR WEBLEY: Plays? Plays? Plays? I'm sure I never heard ... What plays?
TRUNDLEBEN: I asked him that, Sir Webley, and he said ... he sent me a list (_fumbling_). Ah, here it is.
[_He holds it high, far from his face, tilts his head back and looks down his nose through his glasses._
He says--let me see--"Hamelt," or "Hamlet," I don't know how he pronounces it. "Hamelt, Hamlet"; he spells it "H-a-m-l-e-t." If you pronounce it the way one pronounces handle, it would be "Hamelt," but if----
TRUNDLEBEN: Well, I gathered the scene was in Denmark.
NEEKS: Denmark! H'm! another of those neutrals!
SIR WEBLEY: Well, I wouldn't so much mind where the scene of the play was put, if only it was a play one ever had heard of.
NEEKS: But those men who have much to do with neutrals are rather the men--don't you think, Sir Webley?--who ...
SIR WEBLEY: Who want watching. I believe you're right, Neeks. And that type of unsuccessful play-wright is just the kind of man I always rather ...
NEEKS: That's rather what I feel, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: It wouldn't be a bad plan if we told somebody about him.
NEEKS: I think I know just the man, Sir Webley. I'll just drop him a line.
SIR WEBLEY: Yes, and if he's all right there's no harm done, but I always suspect that kind of fellow. Well, what else, Trundleben? This is getting interesting.
TRUNDLEBEN: Well, Sir Webley, it's really very funny, but he sent me a list of the characters in this play of his, "Hamelt," and, and it's really rather delicious----
TRUNDLEBEN: He's got a _ghost_ in his play. (_He-he-he-he-he_) A ghost! He really has.
TRUNDLEBEN: I met Mr. Vass the other day--it was his four hundredth presentation of "The Nighty"--and I told him about it. He said that bringing a ghost on the stage was, of course--er--ludicrous.
SIR WEBLEY: What else does he say he's done?