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SCENE -- _Near Torcello._ CULCHARD _and_ PODBURY _are seated side by side in the gondola, which is threading its way between low banks, bright with clumps of Michaelmas daisies and pomegranate-trees laden with red fruit. Both_ CULCHARD _and_ PODBURY _are secretly nervous and anxious for encouragement_.
PODBURY (_humming_ "_In Old Madrid_" _with sentiment_). La-doodle-um-La-doodle-oo: La-doodle-um-te-dumpty-loodle-oo! I think she rather seemed to like me -- those first days at Brussels, don't _you_?