MAR. We want a supper of the choicest!
(MIMI and RUDOLPH joining their friends.)
RUD. (accompanied by MIMI) Two places.
COL. Let's have supper.
RUD. So we have come. (introducing Mimi)
This is Mimi,
The merry flower girl;
And now she's come to join us.
Our party is completed—
For I shall play the poet,
While she's the muse incarnate.
Forth from my brain flow songs of passion,
As, at her touch the pretty buds blow;
As in the soul awaketh beautiful love!
MAR. (ironically) My word, what high falutin'!
COL. Digna est intrari.
SCH. Ingrediat si necessit.
COL. I'll grant only an accessit!
(RUDOLPH makes MIMI sit down. All being seated, the waiter returns with the menu.)