Second B. (appreciating the justice of this arrangement, having dined with his companion elsewhere). Well, that's fair enough.
[Feels an increased respect for the Entertainment.
First B. Must get their money back somehow, you know. Capital seats for hearing, these. Now, we'll just take a cup of coffee, and a quiet cigar, while we listen to the singing—you'll enjoy this, I know!
[With the air of a man who knows the whole thing by heart; the Waiter brings two tumblers of black coffee, for which he demands the sum of six francs; lively indignation of the Two Britons, who denounce the charge as a swindle, and take some time to recover sufficient equanimity to attend to what is going on on the Stage.
FEMALE ARTISTE (SINGS REFRAIN).
Female Artiste (sings refrain)—
Pour notre Exposition,
Il faut nous faire imposition! &c., &c.