Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride.
At the end of “Patience,” it will be remembered, the twenty love-sick maidens gave up æstheticism and decided to marry officers of Dragoons. But a taste for intellectual gimcrackery is not so easily eradicated, and it is probable that the poor ladies neither liked nor were liked at Aldershot. That is certainly the impression conveyed by the following sequel.
OUT OF PATIENCE; OR, BUNTHORNE AVENGED.
Scene.—Drawing-room of Colonel Calverley’s house at Aldershot. His wife, Saphir, is entertaining Angela, Ella, and the rest of the love-sick maidens—now married to stalwart officers of Dragoons—at afternoon tea. Each lady dandles a baby, which squalls intermittently.
Chorus.
Twenty heart-sick ladies we,
Living down at Aldershot,