"No one listens but the flowers,
As they hang their heads in shame." (Klinkety-klink.)
Rob.—
"Yes, Miss Maud, you noisy magpie.
I hang ditto and the same."
Clifford.—"If you don't keep quiet, I'll—" (Klutter-terattle-tering.)
Coffee-mill, etc.—"Kr-rrrrr-r-rrr (Mollie) r-r-r (dar) rrrr-r-rrrr."
Colonel.—"She is the very image of Ivarene; and I am almost converted to Bruce's strange creed when I see them."
Maud (at the well).—"Ke-pump, ke-pump, ke-pump!"
Colonel.—"I saw them together to-day. I was perfectly bewildered; for they are the very picture of Bruce and Ivarene on their wedding-day."
Maud.—
"Mollie, fairest, sweetest, dearest!
Look up, darling, tell me this—"