Scro. Have they no refuge or resource?
Spir. Are there no prisons? Are there no work-houses?
Scro. My very words, again.
Spir. Begone! hideous, wretched creatures, your habitation should not be in a Christian land. (Ignorance and Want slouch off.) Let us proceed, time is passing, and my life is hastening to an end.
Scro. Are spirit's lives so short?
Spir. My life on this globe is very brief. It ends to-night.
Scro. To-night?
Spir. To-night, at midnight. (Exeunt.)
SCENE IV—Drawing room. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Merry, Miss Julia Kemper, Miss Sarah Kemper, Mr. Thomas Topper, Mr. Henry Snapper, discovered seated around the dessert table. Servant serving coffee.
All. (Laughing) Ha, ha! ha, ha, ha, ha!