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EPILOGUE
| The Bride | (to herself, rapturously). A-a-a-h! |
| The Bridegroom | (dabbing at his forehead with his handkerchief during a lull). I shall drop. |
| The Best Man | (appearing suddenly at his side with a glass). Bellows to mend, old horse, what? Keep going. You're doing fine. Bless you. Bless you. |
[Drifts away.
| Elderly Stranger | (to bridegroom). Sir, I have jigged your wife on my knee. |
| The Bridegroom | (with absent politeness). Ah! Lately? |
| Elderly Stranger. | When she was a baby, sir. |
| The Bridegroom | (from force of habit). Oh, thanks. Thanks awf'lly. |
| The Bride | (to herself). Why can't one get married every day!…(catching sight of a young gentleman whose bi-weekly conversation with her in the past was wont |
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