"A PENNY PLAIN—BUT OSCAR COLOURED."
(An Entertainment Antagonistic to Amusement.)
Scene—Anywhere. Characters distributed about the Stage in more or less admired confusion.
Anybody. So we are living in a penny romance. And this is Society.
Charles his Friend. Society is everything but sociable.
Somebody. But why should the Prime Minister be threatened by a professional blackmailer?
Charles his Friend. In matters of this kind the Premier is the dernier.
Someone Else. But surely the same sort of thing has been done by Sardou in Dora?