"You did awfully well, Miss Kitty—you reminded me of Lotta."
"Of course," said Kitty with neat sarcasm. "Now go and tell Muriel she reminded you of Bernhardt!"
"She looked more like Mrs. Langtry, didn't she?" said her companion diplomatically. "But Miss Pallinder now did have a kind of likeness to Bernhardt, she's so tall and thin. I thought she was stunning in that red dress and the diamonds—why didn't she put them on again? Right at the end there, where they find them, I mean?"
"I don't know, unless she wanted to shorten up the last scene, and get through. She said she was going to give them back to her mother as soon as it was over."
"Mrs. Pallinder's not wearing them, though. What became of Huddesley toward the last there?"
"Mazie said he had to go, the doctor had sent for him or something, I didn't catch what it was. That was Bob in his clothes, you know."
"Say, Teddy's had a lot of substitutes this evening, hasn't he? Do you suppose anyone suspects?"
"Nobody's said anything to me anyhow."
"Hello, here's Capoul!"[6]
"Oh, Capoul—Rats!" said Bob, reddening with vexation. He had a secret conviction that a tenor voice lacked manliness, and mistook the felicitations of his friends for artfully disguised raillery. "People will be poking that 'La-hee-ho' business at me from now till doomsday, I suppose."