“’Course they can. And another time, we’ll get up a ship scene, I don’t know just how yet, but I’ll plan it——”
“We could have the mermaid come to the side of the ship.”
“Ah, coming around to the mermaid rôle, are you? Well, those schemes are all right. Now, what shall we choose for the first one?”
“Not soldiers or sailors. Let them see some stunning show first.”
“Oriental?”
“Yes, I guess so. Your idea of the juggler is splendid. He can come on the stage like those Hindoo fakirs, you know,——”
“Yes, that’s what I meant.”
“You know, there’s not so very much room——”
“Want to go over to Elise’s, and have it all in her casino?”
“N-no,—not at first, anyway. You see, Phil, I suppose it is nothing but pride and vain glory,—but I thought up this plan,—and I want to have it in my own home.”