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NANCY (excitedly). Then it has! I knew it had! I felt it. Tell me quickly! (With a sudden change) No, don’t tell me quickly, tell me very, very slowly. Begin from the very beginning when you left here after breakfast. (Pleadingly) Only just tell me first that it is good news.

BROXOPP (with an air). Madam, you see in front of you the Great Broxopp.

NANCY. Yes, but you’ve told me that every day since we’ve been married.

BROXOPP (momentarily shaken, but quickly recovering). But you believed it! Say you believed it!

NANCY. Of course I did.

BROXOPP (strutting about the room). Aha, she knew! She recognised the Great Broxopp. (Striking an attitude) And now the whole world will know.

NANCY. Is it as wonderful as that?

BROXOPP. It is, Nancy, it is! I have been singing all the way home. (Seriously) Nancy, when we have lots of money I think I shall learn to sing. An artist like myself requires to give expression to his feelings in his great moments. Several people on the bus objected to my singing. I’m afraid they were right.