Ladies. Yes, yes; let’s talk about the weather.
[Edith, Kate, and Girls retire and sit two and two, facing each other, in a line across.
Mabel and Frederic enter from cave.
Chattering Chorus.
How beautifully blue the sky,
The glass is rising very high,
Continue fine I hope it may,
And yet it rained but yesterday;
To-morrow it may pour again
(I hear the country wants some rain);