In that excellent scene

Which she with Mr. Wigan so forcibly plays,

In Bourcicault’s comedy, “Love in a Maze,”

When her scorn for her tempter, her love for her spouse,

In language theatrical, “bring down the house,”

You can fancy how Margaret, deeply enraged,

And backed up by the feeling that she was engaged

To Otto Von Rosen, the dearest of men,

Rejected Sir Rupert at once, there and then.

In vain he implored,