The O. O. M. B. O. I am not lucky.
The O. O. M. She is not lucky.
A. F. O. M. There must be some mistake.
An A. O. C. You are not waiting for the Government. That is what I meant.
The O. O. M. Oh, oh! He meant something.
A. F. O. M. There must be some mistake.
The O. O. M. B. O. Oh, oh! Somebody is coming.
Bill and his party come in on all-fours. You cannot see them because of the fog, but you can hear them coughing. It is terrible. There is a scene of intense intensity while Bill Tyl and Methyl crawl about trying to find the people they have come to find. Bill keeps finding the Awfully Old Colonel by mistake, and this causes a great deal of emotion. The one he is after is The Oldest Old Maid But One, and, as she says nothing but “Oh, Oh, I cannot smell him,” instead of saying, “Here I am, Bill,” it is very difficult to identify her.
But suddenly Methyl remembers that in all her blameless life she has never left anyone in The Lurch. (Wood-wind, sotto voce—and strings, vibrato.) The rule is that anyone who comes down to The Lurch and remembers things like that may rescue everyone who is in The Lurch at the time.
This gives general satisfaction and the whole party sets off to the top, Old Maids and all.