Masks and Faces; or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Comedy in Two Acts

by Tom Taylor; Charles Reade

Bid the musicians play.

[Exit Servant L. H.

(Vane offers his arm to Woff.) Let me conduct you to the garden.

[Music. Woffington gives her hand and goes off with Vane (L. C.): in going out she looks back. Music.]

WOFF. (aside). Yes; there are triumphs out of the theatre.

[Exit with Vane, L. C.

CIBBER (crosses to Mabel). Mr. Vane’s garden will lack its fairest flower, madam, if you desert us.

MABEL (R.). Nay, my Lord, there are fairer here than I.

POM. (goes up to C. L.) Jealous, I see, already. Shall I tell her all? No; I will let the green-eyed monster breach the fortress, and then I shall walk in without a contest.