[With solemn disapproval.] Disgraceful! They've flown right over the chimney-pots!

THE CURTAIN FALLS.

END OF THE THIRD ACT.

THE FOURTH ACT

SCENE I

Horace's rooms, as in the opening of the play.

The time is immediately after the close of the Third Act.

As the curtain rises Mrs. Rapkin is arranging various articles on the table. Rapkin enters from the door leading to landing, carrying a pair of boots on trees, which he takes into Horace's bedroom by the door down on the right, and then returns.