"What do you mean to come out in?"
"Why, what I've got on will do very well."
"Oh, that's so like you," said Opie, shaking his sides with laughter, "you really are inimitable!—What character do you select here?"
"Character!" said Dumps, "the stranger."
"The Stranger! you?"
"Yes, I."
"And you really mean to come out here as the Stranger?" said Opie.
"Why, yes to be sure—I'm but just come."
"Then I shall put your name in large letters immediately, we will open this evening; and as to terms, you shall have half the receipts of the house."
Off ran Mr. Opie, who was no less a personage than the manager of the theatre, leaving Dumps fully persuaded that he had been closeted with a lunatic.