"What happened to the mouse?"
"He was right here."
"Yeah we know he was right here. You see a mouse now?"
"No, you?"
"Um, no! Duh! Where'd he go?"
"Must've scarpered."
"Well obviously. Last I heard mice don't just disappear."
"My friend Butter told me this one time he was watching a mouse and..."
"Yeah, yeah. That's why Butter's human gives him pills. Anyway, Jeeze, he was right here! Who had the job of watching him?"
"It was Red Baron."
"Okay. So Red, what gives?"
"Who, me? I should watch a mouse? I'll be nineteen next week. I fell asleep is all..."
"You fell asleep and now we're out a mouse. Well, maybe he's around somewhere..."
" He was just here!"
"Yeah, Patches. Stop being Captain Obvious and help us look..."
"He scarpered!"
"Yeah..."