[She pauses, and laughs lightly and humorously at herself, and]
THE CURTAIN FALLS
SCENE IV
A room at the Barley Sheaf, by candlelight, in the late evening of the same day.
Seated round a table are Lord Muir and Baliol White, a young spark of fashion; Sam Ogilvie, a flash but unprosperous ‘sport’; Neil Simpson, a drab and dissolute little schoolmaster; ‘Shy’ Duncan, a speculative gentleman of finance, at present half asleep, and Burns.
Their cups are frequently replenished from a large punch-bowl in the middle of the table.
Burns (to full chorus, is singing),
O, Willie brew’d a peck o’ maut,
And Rob and Allan cam’ to see;