[They settle down.
Captain Alchin. Pleasure! (To himself.) Think I see myself explainin' the jokes and that! (Aloud.) Afraid I shan't be of much use, really. Rather out of my line this sort of thing, you know!
Mrs. M. I'm sure you must know more about it than Miss Toovey and I do. Tell me who is this rather good-looking girl in kneebreeches with the horrid voice and the blue eyelids, and why does she walk like that?
"See us lurch along in line, with a straggle serpentine."
Capt. Alch. (off his guard). Oh, that's Miss Lardie Lushboy; it's her usual business—drinkin' song, young man about town, and all that.
Mrs. M. There, you see, you know all about her!
[Capt. A. hastens to explain that her name is on the programme.
Miss Lardie (sings)—
See us lurch along in line, with a straggle serpentine,