[Goes out quickly to the right; from the water the Chorus is heard again.

Chorus.

Maybe I shall shatter my roaming bark,

But it’s passing sweet to be roaming!

[The boat slowly glides away as the curtain falls.

ACT SECOND.

Sunday afternoon. Well-dressed ladies and gentlemen are drinking coffee on the verandah. Several of the guests appear through the open glass door in the garden-room; the following song is heard from within.

Chorus.

Welcome, welcome, new plighted pair

To the merry ranks of the plighted!