ticket-holders

Updated: May 1, 2025

I listened undisturbed to a piece of music that was fifteen minutes long always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuously and pleasantly disappointed but when the last note was struck, here came the stream again. You see, they had made those late comers wait in the comfortable waiting-parlor from the time the music had begun until it was ended.

Mark Twain - A Tramp Abroad