CAPTAIN. [Rising] Well, well, well! Now I am going to have a drink. [Goes over to the buffet and mixes a drink, which he takes standing up] There should be a rail here to put the foot on, so that one might dream of being at Copenhagen, in the American Bar.
ALICE. Let us put a rail there, if it will only remind us of Copenhagen. For there we spent our best moments.
CAPTAIN. [Drinks quickly] Yes, do you remember that "navarin aux pommes"?
ALICE. No, but I remember the concerts at the Tivoli.
CAPTAIN. Yes, your tastes are so—exalted!
ALICE. It ought to please you to have a wife whose taste is good.
CAPTAIN. So it does.
ALICE. Sometimes, when you need something to brag of——
CAPTAIN. [Drinking] I guess they must be dancing at the doctor's—I catch the three-four time of the tuba: boom-boom-boom!
ALICE. I can hear the entire melody of the Alcazar Waltz. Well, it was not yesterday I danced a waltz——