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* Sir Edward pretends to be a tramp, then accidentally reveals he was educated at Eton and pretends he's fallen on hard times. Agatha recounts this story to Archie.
--> [Agatha said,] "He was in horrible old clothes, but he had an Eton shield on his watch-chain. He seemed to be ashamed to remember it. He said he had come down in the world--through drink!"
--> Archie struggled hard with the emotions evoked by this description of an abstemious personage currently believed to be making an income of forty thousand pounds.
* Archie and Charles return from their political meeting to find their friends have been besieged by journalists and visited by (what they think is) a lunatic.
--> '''Archie:''' Good God! What kind of lunatic?
--> '''John:''' Don't know. Mrs Lithgow was not communicative. She said something about smallpox. Maybe he's a fellow-sufferer looking for Archie's company. Anyhow, he's in the wine-cellar for Wattie to deal with.
--> ''[Archie investigates and is considerably upset when he returns]''
--> '''Archie:''' It's deuced hard luck. Here am I just making a promising start in my public career, and you've gone and locked up the local Medical Officer of Health who came to inquire into a reputed case of smallpox.
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