Elinor. This room is dedicated to nicotine. (To Mrs. Seelig.) Besides, we’re going to take Dr. De Lota to the piano.
De Lota. Are you?
Elinor. (To Vedah.) Aren’t we?
Vedah. We are.
Burril. Here’s one place. (His pencil breaks.) Ah!
Clayton. (Offering a pencil attached to his watch chain.) Here.
Burril. (Giving libretto to Clayton.) Just mark that passage—“My native land,” etc. (To Elinor.) Now follow that when Aida sings Italian and note how the English stumbles.[25]
Two pages later, as Elinor goes out to the automobile, in order that the audience may see the libretto of which we have heard so much pass into the hands of De Lota, we have this:
Elinor. Take this for me. (Hands libretto to De Lota.)
Later in the act, when Judge Hoover is telling Clayton that he saw some woman with De Lota as he was entering the apartment, the dialogue runs: