When he first came on as a newsboy, Miss Stubbs said: "How much that newsboy looks like Mr. Barton, ma's new boarder."
"He does look some like him."
"But of course it isn't he. I wonder if he is here this evening."
"I don't see him anywhere," said the escort.
When Bert appeared in his own clothes in the fourth act, Angelica exclaimed: "Why, it is Mr. Barton, after all! Is it possible that I know a live actor? Why, I was talking to him at supper, and he was really quite attentive to me."
"He is put down on the bill as Bob Hazleton," said the young man, consulting the programme.
"That must be his stage name. I will get him to tell me all about acting to-morrow. Do you know, Mr. Cutting, I should like to go on the stage myself? I should so like to play Juliet."
"If you do, will you let me be Romeo?"
"Yes, if you desire it," said Angelica, tapping her escort coquettishly with her fan.
It's safe to say that Mr. Cutting, who was barely five feet in height, and Miss Angelica, who was tall, thin, and angular, would have made a very remarkable Romeo and Juliet.