COCKNEY COQUETRY: A STUDY IN REGENT'S PARK.

SCENE--_NEAR THE BAND-STAND. TIME--7 P.M. ON A SUNDAY IN AUGUST._

CHARACTERS.

_Polly_ (_about 22; a tall brunette, of the respectable lower
middle-class, with a flow of light badinage, and a taste for
tormenting._)

_Flo_ (_18; her friend; shorter, somewhat less pronounced in
manner; rather pretty, simply and tastefully dressed; milliner
or bonnet-maker's apprentice._)

_Mr. Ernest Hawkins_ (_otherwise known as "ERNIE 'ORKINS";
19 or 20; _short, sallow, spectacled; draper's assistant; a
respectable and industrious young fellow, who chooses to pass
in his hours of ease as a blasé misogynist_).

_Alfred_ (_his friend; shorter and sallower; a person with a
talent for silence, which he cultivates assiduously_).

_POLLY and FLO are seated upon chairs by the path, watching
the crowd promenading around the enclosure where the Band is
playing._

_Polly_ (_to FLO_). There's ERNIE 'ORKINS;--he doesn't see us yet.
'Ullo, ERNIE, come 'ere and talk to us, won't you?

_Flo_. Don't, POLLY. I'm sure _I_ don't want to talk to him!