F. Look here, you villain! You planned this affair!
E. (striking an attitude and speaking in a melancholy tone). He calls me a villain for being the means of making him happy. Annie, if I were you, I’d release him from the engagement at once.
A. (smiling). Come, Edwin, you haven’t told me when you arrived.
E. I have been here two hours.
F. (in a comico-threatening manner). Tell me, sir, did you not plan this whole affair?
E. (more seriously). No, I knew nothing of it till I read the letter in reply to the advertisement. I then recognized the handwriting, and in that way discovered that Annie was stopping here. I felt sure that you would be pleased with one another, and would both pass a pleasant summer, if nothing more came of it. Yesterday was the first day of my vacation, and I thought it time to be looking after you. But aunt tells me you are engaged.
F. Yes, and I feel amply repaid for coming so far, and for working three months on a farm, in order to secure a wife to my mind. If any of my friends in the city are troubled in the same way that I was, I shall recommend to them to try my remedy, trusting it may produce the same gratifying results.
E. And in that way I suppose they may expect to get a good knowledge of “Practical Husbandry.”
(All three bow, and Curtain falls.)