BOX. Heads? Stop, sir! Will you permit me (taking COX’S sixpence). Holloa! your sixpence has got no tail, sir!
COX (seizing BOX’S shilling). And your shilling has got two heads, sir!
BOX. Cheat!
COX. Swindler! (They are about to rush upon each other, then retreat to some distance and commence sparring, and striking fiercely at each other.)
Enter MRS. BOUNCER, L. H. C.
BOX and COX. Is the little back second-floor room ready?
MRS. B. Not quite, gentlemen. I can’t find the pistols, but I have brought you a letter—it came by the general post yesterday. I’m sure I don’t know how I forgot it, for I put it carefully in my pocket.
COX. And you’ve kept it carefully in your pocket ever since?
MRS. B. Yes, sir. I hope you’ll forgive me, sir (going). By-the-bye, I paid twopence for it.