He had given a degree of natural sympathy, and this was an English chap's idea of a joke.
"I'm the Prince of Wales, myself," he remarked, "and my mother's expecting me to lunch at Windsor.

So long, me lord," and he set his foot on the treadle.
Mount Dunstan rose, feeling rather awkward.

The point seemed somewhat difficult to contend.
"It is not a joke," he said, conscious that he spoke rather stiffly.
"Little Willie's not quite as easy as he looks," was the cryptic remark of Mr.Selden.
Mount Dunstan lost his rather easily lost temper, which happened to be the best thing he could have done under the circumstances.
"Damn it," he burst out.

"I'm not such a fool as I evidently look.

A nice ass I should be to play an idiot joke like that.