) There! That's first-rate. You can put a
camp-chair on top of it for the prompter to sit on; there's nothing
like having the prompter up high, because amateur actors when they
forget their lines, always look up in the air. Perkins, go sit out
in the hall and imagine yourself an enthusiastic audience--will you?--
and tell us if you can see the piano. If you can see it, we'll have
to put it somewhere else.
Perkins. Do you mean it?
Mrs. Bradley. Of course he doesn't, Mr. Perkins. It's impossible to
see it from the hall. Now, I think the rug ought to come up.
Mrs. Perkins. Dear me! what for?
Yardsley. Oh, it wouldn't do at all to have that rug in the
conservatory, Mrs. Perkins. Besides, I should be afraid it would be
spoiled.
Perkins. Spoiled? What would spoil it? Are you going to wear
spiked shoes?
Barlow. Spiked shoes? Thaddeus, really you ought to have your mind
examined. This scene is supposed to be just off the ballroom, and it
is here that Gwendoline comes during the lanciers and encounters
Hartley, the villain. Do you suppose that even a villain in an
amateur show would go to a ball with spiked shoes on?
Perkins (wearily).
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