_El_. No; I will keep it for a pattern and a sweet reminiscence. Now I
will go and put on my Louis Quatorze hat, and be back in a moment, if you
will go and call a hansom.

[_Exit_ Elaine.

[Adolphus _bursts into a fit of uncontrollable laughter_.

[_Exit laughing_.



SCENE V.--The Zoological Gardens.


_El_. How sweet are these sights and sounds when hallowed by the
consciousness of a beloved presence! How one glows with affection
towards every object in nature! Adolphus, dear, don't you feel, with me,
that our hearts warm towards the hippopotamus?

_Ad_. Mine is positively beating with the violence of my affection for
him. If he was not so wet and bib-bib-big, I could throw my arms round
him. Dear hippop-pop-pop-pop-otamoms!

_El_. Oh, look! there is that gentleman who got into the train with you
on the blessed day that we first met. Mr Flamm, I think Mr Gresham said
his name was.

_Enter_ Flamm.