"Is it that you are engaged to the fair Pauline?"
"Oh, bother, no. Otto Schaefer may have her, if he wishes."
"What is it, then?"
"I have sent complimentary tickets to Palmer and Daly. Do you think they will come?"
"I imagine they are both very busy men, and cannot afford the time."
"I thought, if they should be impressed with my playing, one of them might offer me an engagement in his stock company."
"And you would like that?"
"Would I like it? It would make me supremely happy."
"Then you are not satisfied with the position of a bell-boy?"