Miss Jay [to Anna].
How fortunate you've got your new manteau Next week to go your round of visits in!
An Elderly Lady [at the window].
When shall we go and order the trousseau?
Mrs. Strawman.
How are they selling cotton-bombasine?
A Gentleman [to some ladies on the verandah].
Just look at Lind and Anna; what's his sport?
Ladies [with shrill ecstasy].
Gracious, he kissed her glove!
Others [similarly, springing up].
No! Kiss'd it? Really?
Lind [appears, red and embarrassed, in the doorway].
O, stuff and nonsense!
[Disappears.
Miss Jay.
Yes, I saw it clearly.
Stiver
[in the door, with a coffee-cup in one hand and a biscuit in the other].
The witnesses must not mislead the court;
I here make affidavit, they're in error.
