Pet. Then you have not heard of the recent affair in Westminster?
Off. In Westminster! Why that is close to the Houses of Parliament!
Pet. And if I tell you that it has been traced to the Lobby of the Commons.
Off. Don't say another word, my dear Sir, not another word. What, appeared in the House of Commons! Why, several millions shall be granted at once!
[Scene closes in upon preparations of the most active character.
Announcement.—The Heavenly Twins has had a success. It will be followed by a treatise on gout by Mrs. Sarah Gamp, M.D., to be entitled The Uneavenly Twinge.
"SOCIAL TEST-WORDS."
[An American writer in The Critic has an article on this subject.]