'Why, it's "Tommy make room for your Uncle!"' she cried aloud, so that the soul of Gideon was filled with bitterness.

'Andante patetico, indeed! The man must be a mere impostor.' And just at this moment there came a confused, scuffling sound from underneath the table; a strange note, like that of a barn-door fowl, ushered in a most explosive sneeze; the head of the sufferer was at the same time brought smartly in contact with the boards above; and the sneeze was followed by a hollow groan.
Julia fled to the door, and there, with the salutary instinct of the brave, turned and faced the danger.

There was no pursuit.

The sounds continued; below the table a crouching figure was indistinctly to be seen jostled by the throes of a sneezing-fit; and that was all.
'Surely,' thought Julia, 'this is most unusual behaviour.

He cannot be a man of the world!' Meanwhile the dust of years had been disturbed by the young barrister's convulsions; and the sneezing-fit was succeeded by a passionate access of coughing.
Julia began to feel a certain interest.