Albert: Stuff and sentimentalism, that's what they are!
Sally: O, Albert, how can you talk so? Think of it! Today is his birthday; today you should delight to honor him.
Albert: His birthday! Who cares?
Sally: Everyone should give thanks for this day.
Albert (laughing): What nonsense you talk, Sally Caroline.
Sally: Well, you will see. The time will come when the Country will celebrate his birthday just as they now do Washington's.
Albert: O, come now, that's too much. It's bad enough to know that we are to have another four years of his tyranny, without hearing you sing his praises.
Sally: But, you'll have to hear it; the war will soon be over, and he will be proclaimed as the Savior of his Country.
Albert: O, stop! The war is not anywhere near over: it is but begun. I'll not listen to this talk any longer. I resent it. I'll not hear any more of Abraham Lincoln. (Goes up stage in great excitement.)
Sally (excitedly): Why, Albert! How can you talk so? Why you sound just like a rebel.