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SCENE -- _Gardens belonging to the Hotel du Parc, Lugano. Time, afternoon; the orchestra is turning up in a kiosk._ CULCHARD _is seated on a bench in the shade, keeping an anxious eye upon the opposite door_.
CULCH. (_to himself_). She said she had a headache, and made her father and Van Boodeler go out on the lake without her. But she certainly gave me to understand that she might come out when the band played, if she felt better. The question is, whether she _means_ to feel better or not. She is the most tantalizing girl! _I_ don't know what to make of her. Not a single reference, as yet, to that last talk we had at Bingen. I must see if I can't recall it to her memory -- if she comes. I'll wait here, on the chance of it -- we are not likely to be dis -- . Confound it all -- Podbury! (_with suppressed irritation as_ PODBURY _comes up_). Well, do you _want_ anything in particular?