COLONEL.
Well, that about waiting was not quite necessary. Why, we have finished our coffee.
ADELAIDE.
Ida has not finished yet.
IDA.
Hush!
ADELAIDE.
Why did he ever let himself be put up as candidate? He has plenty to do as it is.
COLONEL.
Pure ambition, girls. The devil of ambition possesses these young men.
He impels them as steam does a locomotive.