Jinny. I was! Thank heaven! I'm so happy, Jack!
[Snuggling up to him on the bench.
Austin. [Steals a little, quick hug with his arm about her waist.] Bless you, darling, I don't think there was ever a man as happy as I am!
[They start apart quickly as a German Couple enter Right, with a Young Daughter, who is munching a cake, and hanging, a tired and unwilling victim, to her mother's hand.
Woman. Ach! schön! sehr schön!!
Man. Grösses, nicht?
Woman. Yah!
[They stand admiring.
Austin. By the way, when you answer your brother's letter, I wish you'd say I seemed surprised he was still in New York.
Jinny. [Reading.] Um—um—