) Or was it _Ernest_? No! _Henry_ Pelwittle, poor
fellow.
OLIVIA (_indignantly_). But, Mr. Pim, you said his name was Telworthy.
How could you?
PIM. Oh, I blame myself, I blame myself entirely.
OLIVIA. But how could you _think_ of a name like Telworthy if it wasn't
Telworthy?
PIM (_eagerly_). Ah, ah, that is the really interesting thing about the
whole matter.
OLIVIA (_reproachfully_). Yes, Mr. Pim, all your visits here to-day have
been very interesting.
PIM. Oh, very interesting, very interesting, You see, Mrs. Marden, when I
made my first appearance here this morning I was received by--Miss Diana,
who----
OLIVIA. Dinah!
PIM. I beg your pardon?
OLIVIA. Dinah. Her name is Dinah!
PIM (_pauses_). You're quite right. Dinah--oh yes. Miss Dinah, yes. She
was in--er--rather a communicative mood, and I suppose by way of passing
the time she mentioned that before your marriage--to Mr. Marden you had
been a Mrs.--er----
OLIVIA. Telworthy.
PIM. Telworthy, yes, of course. She also mentioned Australia. Now by some
curious process of the brain--which strikes me as decidedly curious--when
I was trying to recollect--the name of the poor fellow on the boat, whom
you will remember I had also met in Australia, the fact that this other
name was also stored in my memory, a name equally peculiar--this fact I
say----
OLIVIA (_seeing that the sentence is rapidly going to pieces_). Yes, I
quite understand.
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