The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts

by C. Haddon Chambers

Gunning.

Thanks, I have a cigarette.

[Takes one from his case and lights it.

Parbury.

Colonel?

Colonel.

Thank you, I’ll take a cigar. I think, however, I’ll—er—smoke it in the garden. Mabel’s limited appreciation of tobacco——

Parbury.

Oh, Mabel won’t mind—she’s quite educated.