Falk.

So many heads, so many sentences!

No, you all grope and blunder off the line.

Each simile’s at fault; I’ll tell you mine;—

You’re free to turn and wrest it as you please.

[Rises as if to make a speech.

In the remotest east there grows a plant;

And the sun’s cousin’s garden is its haunt—

The Ladies.

Ah, it’s the tea-plant!