"Have you?"
"Of course, I haven't!" Arethusa considered it a foregone conclusion that if he wanted her for anything, she was free.
"Then will you go to see the 'Earl and His Girl' with me?"
"What is that?"
"A musical comedy, and quite a good one, I've heard them say."
"Is.... Is it the Theater?"
"Why.... Yes! Certainly!" This surprised him just a bit.
"Oh, Mr. Bennet!" exclaimed Arethusa once more.
"I take it, then, you'll go with me?"
"You just bet! I should just love it! Why, I've never been to the Theater in all my life! Not even to the Opera House in Hawesville!" Hawesville was the county-seat.