Mabel:
Indeed? May I ask where?
Roger:
The place
Was the train, and the time yesterday.
Mabel:
"Then I came
From my shopping excursion in town by the same
Fast express which brought you? Had I known that the friend
Of my friends, was so near me en route for Bay Bend,
I had waived all conventions and asked him to take
One-half of my parcels for sweet pity's sake.
Roger:
You sadden me sorely. As long as I live
I shall mourn the great pleasure chance chose not to give.
Maurice:
Take courage, mon ami. Our fair friend, Miss Lee,
Fills her time quite as full of sweet works as the bee;
Like the bee, too, she drives out the drones from her hive.
You must toil in her cause, in her favor to thrive.