Promptly. “Why the Judge’s song out of Trial by Jury . Don’t you know it?”

From the back of the room. “No, you’re not, you chuckle-head, you’re singing the Admiral’s song from Pinafore .”

Long argument between Harris and Harris’s friend as to what Harris is really singing. Friend finally suggests that it doesn’t matter what Harris is singing so long as Harris gets on and sings it, and Harris, with an evident sense of injustice rankling inside him, requests pianist to begin again. Pianist, thereupon, starts prelude to the Admiral’s song, and Harris, seizing what he considers to be a favourable opening in the music, begins.