Alone, unless some foreigner uncouth

Breaks in, sits, stares an hour, and so departs,

Brain-stuffed with something to sustain his life,

Dry to the marrow 'mid much merchandise.

How should such know and love the man?

Why, mark!

Even when I told the play and got the praise,

There spoke up a brisk little somebody,

Critic and whippersnapper, in a rage

To set things right: "The girl departs from truth!