Only, if you see the fountain
getting too full, speak faster.
Barlow. We might announce a race between the heroine and the
fountain. It would add to the interest of the play. This is an
athletic age.
Perkins. I suppose it wouldn't do to turn the water off in case of
danger.
Barlow. It could be done, but it wouldn't look well. The audience
might think the fountain had had an attack of stage fright. Where is
the entrance from the ballroom to be?
Yardsley. It ought to be where the fireplace is. That's one reason
why I think the portieres will look well there.
Mrs. Perkins. But I don't see how that can be. Nobody could come in
there. There wouldn't be room behind for any one to stand, would
there?
Bradley. I don't know. That fireplace is large, and only two people
have to come in that way. The rising curtain discloses Gwendoline
just having come in. If Hartley, the villain, and Jack Pendleton,
the manly young navy officer, who represents virtue, and dashes in at
the right moment to save Gwendoline, could sit close and stand the
discomfort of it, they might squeeze in there and await their cues.
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