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SCENE -- _Courtyard of the "Grand Hotel du Lion Belgique et d'Albion," at Brussels. It is just after table d'hote_; PODBURY _and_ CULCHARD _are sitting on a covered terrace, with coffee._
PODBURY (_producing a pipe_). Not such a bad dinner! Expect they'll rook us a lot for it, though. Rather fun, seeing the waiters all troop in with a fresh course, when the proprietor rang his bell. Like a ballet at the Empire -- eh?