FIRST SOLDIER. "Your Grace's son has just been killed. I see the murderer's legs behind the curtain."
DUCHESS. "You can't have him, for I have promised to save him. Get out, the whole lot of you. Come here, you murderous wretch. I've saved you this time, but I won't do it again. Here comes the officer to seize you." (He is seized. Curtain.)
FIRST CRITICAL PERSON. "How do you like it?"
SECOND CRITICAL PERSON. "I hardly think the unities are fixed up just the way they should be, but the scenery is fair, and WALLER isn't so bad."
COMIC PERSON. "Now here's another joke which you can't guess. Said a little four-year-old boy, 'My father and mother have a daughter who is not my sister.' Now what relation was she to the boy?"
ACCOMPANYING FRIEND. (Looking in vain for a policeman, but finding None.) "I don't know, I'm sure."
COMIC PERSON. "Give it up, do you? Why, she was his sister; the boy lied, you see. Ha! ha! ha!"
ACT III.—Scene, the outside of a prison in which RENE is confined. A confederate breaks in and sets it on fire. RENE escapes. Curtain.
YOUNG LADY. "Pa, why did you come here, if you intended to sleep all the time, and never speak a word to me."
PA. "Because, my dear, I am troubled with inability to sleep. Morphine won't help me, but WATTS PHILLIPS will. My physician tells me that he always prescribes one of PHILLIPS'S plays in cases like mine."