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Updated: May 8, 2025
Ursula made a speech; Jimmie made a speech. They came out for uncounted curtain-calls, hand-in-hand. The play was a success! The last act was, of course, an anti-climax. Before it was finished, Elise said to me, in a, stifled voice, "I've got to get back to Jimmie." It seemed significant that Jimmie had not come to her. Surely he had not forgotten the part she had played.
As she looked at him, her pretty brown eyes sparkled with mischief, and her wicked little dimples lost no curtain-calls. Poor, humble Jimmie was stirred to his shoe-tips, for he had never before received the attentions of such a fascinating creature unless perchance it had been to sell her a newspaper, or to beg the price of a sandwich in his tramp days.
"You know that was about the time they staged them property revolutions down there, that wound up in the fifth act with the thrilling canal scene where Uncle Sam has nine curtain-calls holding Miss Panama by the hand, while the bloodhounds keep Senator Morgan treed up in a cocoanut-palm.
There were several curtain-calls, during all of which he kept applauding her furiously, shouting the prima donna's name at the top of his voice and winking to me imploringly to do the same. When quiet had been restored at last I returned to the subject: "Are you in love with her?" "Sure," he answered, without blushing. "As if a fellow could help it.
"Cheering a chap at his funeral!" said Gilbert, groaning with delight as he listened to the shouts and handclaps. They turned to him and offered their congratulations. "Five curtain-calls," said Roger. "Very satisfactory!" "It's splendid, Gilbert," Mrs. Graham exclaimed. "I'm sure it'll be a great success!" "Oh, dear, O Lord, I wish it were over!" Gilbert replied.
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