[Reading.] "Miss Delaporte—a decided acquisition."

BERNSTEIN.

Go on!

QUECKETT

[Reading.] "Miss Delaporte—an imposing figure." [Indignantly.] What do they know about it?

BERNSTEIN.

[Excitedly.] Go on! Go on! I always say I do not read the babers, but I do! [To Miss Dyott.] You will get fifty bounds a week in my next oratorio—I mean, my gomic opera.

QUECKETT.

Fifty pounds a week! My Carrie! I shall be able to snap my fingers at my damn family.

MRS. RANKLING.