"Well, you seemed awfully disappointed."

Bill said nothing for a little, and then with a sudden laugh
confessed.

"It was so exciting yesterday," he said apologetically, "and we
seemed to be just getting there, and discovering the most
wonderful things, and now--"

"And now?"

"Well, it's so much more ordinary."

Antony gave a shout of laughter.

"Ordinary!" he cried. "Ordinary! Well, I'm dashed! Ordinary!
If only one thing would happen in an ordinary way, we might do
something, but everything is ridiculous." Bill brightened up
again.

"Ridiculous? How?"

"Every way. Take those ridiculous clothes we found last night.
You can explain the brown suit, but why the under clothes. You
can explain the underclothes in some absurd way, if you like--you
can say that Mark always changed his underclothes whenever he
interviewed anybody from Australia--but why, in that case, my
dear Watson, why didn't he change his collar?"