Auth. Obviously a recollection of Edwin's schooldays. Label it—"Sometimes he would join the crowd, watching an exhibition of perambulating puppets." Anything else?
Pub. A man being thrown from his horse into a brook.
Auth. All right! Angelina first falls in love with Edwin when nursing him after an accident in the hunting-field. Label it—"His horse swerved, and Edwin was thrown with great violence into the water." Anything else?
Pub. A man with a dark lantern looking, I think, at a mile-stone.
Auth. Reginald, before his death in France, tries to enter burglariously the dwelling-house of his hated rival. Label—"The misguided wretch paused for a moment while he examined one of the mile-stones." Anything further?
Pub. Only two. Which shall we have, a happy or a wretched ending?
Auth. Either you please. One's as easy as the other. What are they?
Pub. First a man dying in the prairie is threatened by a vulture.
Auth. Evidently Edwin. You see, we have already disposed of the wicked cousin. What is the other?
Pub. Oh, the conventional thing—bridal party in a village church. I wish we could use both.