In the North Room.
The I. Y. P. "Cain's First Crime." Why, he's only feeding a stork! I don't see any crime in that.
Her Mother. He's giving it a live lizard, my dear.
The I. Y. P. But storks like live lizards, don't they? And Adam and Eve are looking on, and don't seem to mind.
Her Mother. I expect that's the moral of it. If they'd taken it away from him, and punished him at the time, he wouldn't have turned out so badly as he did—but it's too late to think of that now!
A Matter-of-fact Person (behind). I wonder, now, where he got his authority for that incident. It's new to me.
In the Balcony.
The Mother of the I. Y. P. Oh, Caroline, you've got the Catalogue—just see what No. 288 is, there's a dear. It seems to be a country-house, and they're having dinner in the garden, and some of the guests have come late, and without dressing, and there's the hostess telling them it's of no consequence. What's the title—"The Uninvited Guests," or "Putting them at their Ease," or what?
The I. Y. P. It only says, "The Rose-Garden at Ashridge (containing portraits of the Earls of Pembroke and Brownlow, the Countesses of ——").
[She reads out the list to the end.