"And the house all floor-clothed and decorated——"
"And the orchestra——"
"I'm waiting to hear what old Botlisch will say, that's all!"
"We'll have to stand from under when she begins, I guess."
"Can't be helped now, fellows, we'll have to take our medicine. But who's going to tell 'em?"
"Beg parding, Mr. Breckinridge, sir, but you ain't goin' to give hup the plays on haccount of Mr. Theodore, are you?" Huddesley inquired with a face of consternation.
"Have to, Huddesley," said the doctor. "There's no one to take his place, you know."
"But, beg parding, sir, 'ow'll you hexplain?"
"Why, somehow—anyhow—get up some kind of story."