Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels

by St. John Hankin

What do you mean?

Angela.

No Duchess is allowed to be out of London during the season. There are hardly enough of them to go round as it is.

Saphir.

I never imagined that when we were married we should find ourselves so completely “out of it.”

All.

[Indignantly.] Out of it!

Saphir.

Yes, out of it. Out of the world, the fashion, what you please. Æstheticism is out of vogue now, of course, but there have been lots of fascinating “movements” since then. There’s been Ibsen and the Revolt of the Daughters, and Aubrey Beardsley and the Decadence, and Maeterlinck. The world has been through all these wonderfully thrilling phases since 1880, and where are WE?