on this. Where is the list of guns?

THE LADY [continuing]. Oh, it was quite easy. I said I was my
sister-in-law and that I was a Hun. He lapped it up like a kitten
....

AUGUSTUS. You don't mean to say that--

THE LADY [continuing]. I got hold of the list for a moment and
changed it for a piece of paper out of his stationery rack: it
was quite easy [she laughs: and it is clear that Blueloo is
laughing too].

AUGUSTUS. What!

THE CLERK [laughing slowly and laboriously, with intense
enjoyment]. Ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha! [Augustus rushes at him; he
snatches up the poker and stands on guard.] No you don't.

THE LADY [still at the telephone, waving her disengaged hand
behind her impatiently at them to stop making a noise]. Sh-sh-sh-
sh-sh!!! [Augustus, with a shrug, goes up the middle of the room.
The lady resumes her conversation with the telephone.] What?...Oh
yes: I'm coming up by the 1.35: why not have tea with me at
Rumpelmeister's?...Rum-pel-meister's. You know: they call it
Robinson's now...Right. Ta ta. [She hangs up the receiver, and is
passing round the table on her way towards the door when she is
confronted by Augustus.]

AUGUSTUS. Madam, I consider your conduct most unpatriotic. You