It’s all about London and a bar of soap?

Well, London is the place where Saki‘s short story “Dusk” that builds our background plot is settled. In this story an middle-aged man named Norman Gortsby observes his city from park-based perspective. He is sitting on a bench and in his minds he is judging over the society. After an old poor man has left the place next to him, a younger man takes his seat and tells Gortsby an uncredible story that ends with a lost soap and the indirect request for some money. Gortsby does not believe the young man who hereupon left the place. After the young man was gone Gortsby found a soap und suddendly the young man’s story seemed to be true after all. But sometimes it is not so clear as you think…