Antic HayWhen Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser ('a comfort to all travellers, indispensable to first nighters, the concert goers' friends') to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he decides the time has come to leave his position as a housemaster in a boys' public school and seek his fortune in the metropolis. But post First World War London seems to be gripped by a fever of hedonism. Gumbril is soon caught