1
Are you the man whose scent is so keen for a blunder, and who is himself blunder-proof?
1
I think I may say so.
1
I suppose one must be blunder-proof, to detect the man who is not so?
1
Assuredly.
1
Do I understand that you are proof?
1
How could I call myself educated, if I made blunders at my age?
1
Well, shall you be able to detect a culprit, and convict him if he denies it?
1
Of course I shall.
1
Catch me out, then; I will make one just now.
1
Say on.
1
Why, the deed is done, and you have missed it.
1
You are joking, of course?
1
No, upon my honour. The blunder is made, and you none the wiser. Well, try again; but you are not infallible on these sort of things.
1
Well?
1
Again, the blunder made, and you unconscious.
1
How can that be, before you have opened your lips?
1
Oh yes, I opened them, and to a blunder; but you never see them. I quite doubt you seeing this one even.
2
Well, there is something very queer about it if I do not know a solecism when I hear it.
2
One begins to doubt, when a man has missed three.
2
Three? What do you mean?
2
A complete triolet of them.
2
You are certainly joking.
2
And you are as certainly a poor detective.
2
If you were to say something, one might have a chance.
2
Four chances you have had, and no result. It would have been a fine feather in your hat to have got them all.
2
Nothing fine about it; it is no more than I undertook.
2
Why, there you are again!
2
Again?
2
‘Feather in your hat’?!
2
I don’t know what you mean.
