‘You should know best,’ said Miss La Creevy.

Here Miss Squeers looked sideways at her father again, who looked sideways at her, as much as to say, ‘There you had him.’

Nicholas read it aloud. ‘“Philo–Dramaticus. Crummles, the country manager and actor, cannot be more than forty–three, or forty–four years of age. Crummles is NOT a Prussian, having been born at Chelsea.” Humph!’ said Nicholas, ‘that’s an odd paragraph.’