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TOAD OF TOAD HALL
sibly make yourself look like a respectable animal again, for a more shabby, bedraggled, disreputable-looking object than you are now, I never set eyes on.
TOAD (with dignity)
You can hardly realize, Ratty, to whom you are—
RAT
Now stop swaggering and arguing and be off. Badger and Mole will be in directly.
TOAD (airily)
Oh, ah! Yes, of course, the Mole and the Badger. What's become of them, the dear fellows? I had forgotten all about them.
RAT (gravely)
Well may you ask!
TOAD
Why, what—
RAT
You will hear in good time. Badger himself may prefer to break the news to you. Be off now, and prepare yourself. Why, what's the matter?
TOAD (who has wandered in front of a mirror and is regarding himself with horror)
Is this glass of yours all right?
