"Well," he answered, laughing at her emphatic speech; "it is just as anybody feels: but I think I'd rather 'exit' than any thing else."
"Did you ever see 'Ruy Blas'?" Flossy asked. "You ought to see that. All the ladies cry; or at least they all take out their handkerchiefs: this man is so cruel, you know. And it's lovely where she says,—she's the queen, you know,—'Ruy Blas, I pity, I forgive, and I love you!' Oh, it's too lovely for any thing."
"Is that the place where the ladies all take out their handkerchiefs?"
"No, that isn't the time I cry."
"Why not?" Burleigh asked, his bashfulness forgotten. "Because you have shed all your tears?"
"Oh, no!" she answered. "But I never cry until the music strikes up."
In the carriage before Burleigh's, theatrical matters were also the subject of conversation.
"Of course, Patty can't take her part now," said Emily Purdy.
"Then we shall have to put off our play until she can," Clarence replied, somewhat to the discontent of his companion, who wished to be asked to take the part assigned to Patty.