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SCENE -- _The Steps of the Hotel Dandolo, about_ 11 A. M. PODBURY _is looking expectantly down the Grand Canal_, CULCHARD _is leaning upon the Balustrade_.
PODB. Yes, met Bob just now. They've gone to the Europa, but we've arranged to take a gondola together, and go about. They're to pick me up here. Ah, that looks rather like them. (_A gondola approaches, with_ MISS PRENDERGAST _and_ BOB; PODBURY _goes down the steps to meet them_.) How are you, Miss Prendergast? Here I _am_, you see.