MOTHER.
Oh is it, ain't it lovely! What's it for—I mean why is it?
CLARA.
Why, you know, mother, for defending poor Marie Antoinette in the Tuilleries!
MOTHER.
Oh, did it! And then people say lions are such nasty, heartless creatures.
CLARA.
(Laughing.) O mother! the lion didn't do it; it's only put up for a monument to the soldiers who died trying to protect her from the mob!
MOTHER.
Oh, I see; it's just a fancy picture! Well, anyway, I think it's awful sad.