(A Dramatic Study of Cause and Effect.)
Scene—Interior of a Private Box at a Popular Theatre.
Enter Angelina and her people.
Paterfamilias. Well, now that we are here, I hope you are satisfied. As for myself, I hate these problem plays.
Materfamilias. They are entirely the vogue just now, and we must see them. What everybody does we must do.
Angelina. So I told Edwin—I should say, Mr. Domum—when he complained of our going.
Mater. Of course. We have to follow the fashion.
Pater. Hush! You must not talk any more, see the curtain has risen.
(Five minutes pass.)
First Heroine (on the stage). And so, my dear, my marriage was an utter failure. The monotony of the life was terrible. My husband anticipated my every wish. The tameness was too awful for words, and so I left him.