GUSS. (r.) Haven’t seen you for an age, dear boy.
ALLEN. No. (Goes to Luke r.) I’ve been keeping pretty respectable of late—I—I mean, you know, I haven’t been going out much.
LUKE. (l.) Tom and I are going over to Paris for the Vincennes meeting, and we’ve come to see if you will join.
GUSS. (l. of Allen r.) Yes, do come; then we can show you about Paris a bit, you know.
LUKE. Ah, yes, and we shall be able to get you into one or two things in the betting line if you are with us. We can introduce you to some friends of ours.
ALLEN. Ah, it be very kind of thee, I’m sure.
(They go on talking r.)
BARON. (Aside to the Dexters, back of Clara.) I say, Jack, my boy, how long have you been Colonel? I did not know you vas a militaire.
CLARA. Papa joined the Salvation Army about the same time that you were raised to the German Peerage. Don’t talk so loud, my dear Baron.
BARON. Gut, gut.