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The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other. I looked round for the Time Traveller, and--'It's half-past seven now,' said the Medical Man. 'I suppose we'd better have dinner?'
'Where's----?' said I, naming our host.
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'You have told Blank, and Dash, and Chose about the machine?' he said to me, leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests.
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Those are from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. I always thought it was curious that he adopted this style of giving characters titles instead of names - The Medical Man, The Psychologist, The Editor, The Provincial Mayor, The Very Young Man and of course the very first sentence of the book is:
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The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
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Why is it 'convenient'? I wonder whether the idea was to make it as generic as possible so that it could be happening out there somewhere if only you knew who these particular men were?
It's also odd that there's one character called Filby present with all these Titles.