COLONEL.
Here, Ida, are the new varieties of dahlias our gardener has grown. You'll have to rack your brains to find names for them. Day after tomorrow is the Horticultural Society meeting, when I am to exhibit and christen them.
IDA.
This light-colored one here should be called the "Adelaide."
COLONEL.
Adelaide Buneck, of course. Your own name is out of the running, for as a little dahlia you have long been known to the flower-trade.
IDA.
One shall be called after your favorite writer, "Boz."
COLONEL.
Splendid! And it must be a really fine one, this yellow one here with violet points. And the third one—how shall we christen that?