The man who takes the money for my shillingsworth of pit

Has an aggravating habit of alluding to the weather;

And I never fail to notice, from the corner where I sit,

That the feminine attendants take to whispering together.

The fiddlers in the orchestra do very much the same;

For they know that I m the worshipper of Little What's-her-

name.

I met her, quite promiscuous, a week or two ago;

To see her was to recognise—young Love's a pretty tutor—

She was affably conversing with a man I didn't know;