Chorus. What are they?
Paterfamilias (disgusted at his budget). Valentines!
Now—To-day. Family assembled as before.
Paterfamilias. The fourteenth of February. Dear me, surely this is a memorable date—somehow.
Materfamilias. To be sure, father. It's Valentine's Day.
Eldest Daughter. Is it really true, mother, that people used to receive pictures just as we do Christmas cards?
Second Daughter. Come, you can surely remember. It's not so very long for you.
Eldest Daughter. Don't be spiteful! Remember, miss, there's only a couple of years between us!
Second Daughter. Really! From our appearance there might be a decade!
Son and Heir. Don't quarrel, girls! And here's the post!