But here were two guileless citizens taking their innocuous exercise, and soon about to go indoors to a humdrum dinner, where they would talk of market prices and the last cricket scores and the gossip of their native Surbiton.

I had been making a net to catch vultures and falcons, and lo and behold! two plump thrushes had blundered into it.
Presently a third figure arrived, a young man on a bicycle, with a bag of golf-clubs slung on his back.

He strolled round to the tennis lawn and was welcomed riotously by the players.

Evidently they were chaffing him, and their chaff sounded horribly English.

Then the plump man, mopping his brow with a silk handkerchief, announced that he must have a tub.