in next?

_Jack_ (_who feels sufficiently solemnised_). Well, if you ask me, I
think they'll keep till next year. Pity to disturb the effect of that
last, eh?

SECOND ANNIVERARY--1894.

_SAME SCENE AND TIME. MRS. RIVENLUTE DISCOVERED ALONE_.

_Mrs. R._ He might at _least_ have made _some_ allusion to the day--it
would have been only _decent_! He can't possibly have _forgotten_! I
don't know, though, very likely he has.... Well, _I'm_ not going to
remind him! I suppose he means to stay downstairs, smoking, as usual,
all the evening. Oh, if I could only make him ashamed of himself just
_once_!... _I_ know! Uncle JOHN'S phonograph! He can't help hearing
_that_. (_She winds it up, as JACK R. enters, yawning._) Dear me, this
_is_ an unexpected honour. (_Softening slightly._) Have you come up to
keep me company--for once?

_Jack._ Well, to tell you the truth, my dear, I fancy I left the
evening paper here. An, there it is.

[_He seizes it, and prepares to go._

_Mrs. R._ You can read it here, if you _like_, you know--I don't mind
your smoking.

_Jack._ Thanks--but it's cosier in the study.