Curwen: “Well, never mind him. Don’t pay the slightest attention to him. Let him go to the deuce! And, Caroline!”

Mrs. Curwen: “Yes?”

Curwen: “I—I—I’ve got your glove all right.”

Mrs. Curwen: “Left, you mean, I hope?”

Curwen: “Yes, left, dearest! I mean left.”

Mrs. Curwen: “Eight-button?”

Curwen: “Yes.”

Mrs. Curwen: “Light drab?”

Curwen, pulling a light yellow glove from his pocket: “Oh!” He staggers away from the grating and stays himself against the wall, the mistaken glove dangling limply from his hand.

Roberts, Lawton, and Bemis: “Ah! ha! ha! ha!”