"Hullo! doctor," said I, "so you have come to refresh yourself after the fatigue of seeing me act, eh?"
"Why, you see," retorted he, merrily, "your capital acting has quite given me an appetite."
After one or two complimentary speeches on his part, I took my seat by his side and gave my orders to a waiter.
"Doctor," I said, after a pause, "I saw her again to-night."
"Who?"
"Why, Maud, to be sure."
"Bah! I'll tell you what it is, young man, you want bleeding."
Pulling out his lancet, he wanted to bleed me on the spot, but I refused to be bled.
"Nonsense, doctor," said I; "I haven't any more blood than I know what to do with. I tell you I saw her as distinctly as I see you now. She was in the box opposite yours where those two gentlemen were, but she did not seem to belong to them."
"Well," said he, "I saw those two gentlemen in the box opposite mine, and I can take my oath there was no one else there."