Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-03-30
LADY RoDNEY's PLAY.

Indeed do not.
''Well, if / must be more explicit. /
wish you would not act with that-that
Ponsonby. The way he stares at YOU.
and fixes you with his eyes, is enough to
make man forget his manners ),
My dear Cyril, you can't be serious.
! never heard you SO unreasonable be-
fore. y
Unreasonable NY dear girl! Con-
!sidering we are to be married so soon.
and all that, really thought you would
not object to little advice from me.
sOf course not. If | like it. I shall
always follow it. Do you know that9''
But surely, Dorothy, it can't be a
pleasure 10 90 through rchearsals with
that lanky fellow"
Well, you see, ! am bound to act
now. This is the 10th, and the theatri-
Pals come off on the 10th-only three
days; and how could Lady Rodney pro-
vide substitute in that timcs And be-
side, should like to.
''Oh, would your That, of course,
ettles the question"
"Why, Cyril. exclaims Miss Bohun,
II do believe you are jealous!''
II am. 1t does not make a man par
ticularly cheerful to know that the
woman he loves is to be the object OF
another mans alteration for even an
hour"
But, my dear Cyril, it is only
"But, my dear Dorothy, 1 see no
reason why it might not terminate in
tragedy
Miss Bohun LAUGHS.
Even that, she says, ''would be
better than nothing. This place has
grown SO dull since the Stcwarts left,
and those men at Coote hall"
Look here, Dorothy, throw it up,
says Mr.. Disney, leaning over her chair,
and bending his head until his face is
very near to hers, for my sake"
Well, If you can bring me some
fever. iii take it; but don't see where
you'll get it, as there's nothing of the
sort in the parish, and I'm convinced
that nothing less could save me from
this thing.
Then you are quite determined not
TO give it up9'' says Disney, coldly, draw
ing himself to his full height
: never was more determined in nv
life, = says Miss Bohun, with some Just
Indignation. Il am remarkable for
never saying no to anybody. You
yourself have frequently told me | had
the sweetest nature in the world, and it
is quite too late to alter Lady Rodney's
arrangements now. =
No doubt you are right, as You al
ways are. I'm sorry can't be present
on the nineteenth. but it is impossible,
rs ! shall have business that will detain
me about that time"
Very pressing business?"
Yes, very pressing business. .
"Ah!" says Miss Bohun.
When Disney has been absent two
days, his thoughts undergo decided
change.
TO have left Dorothy in the manner he
had seems to him now to have been
not only an unmanly, but a most unwor-
thy action.
There is only one way out Of It. He
will write to her, and humbly apologize
for his conduct.
The nighs passes YEARLY enough, and
the morning brings him no relief He is
still indescribably miserable. and sinks
into the belief that there is no balm in
Gilead for his uneasy spirit.
The next day he grows even more des-
perate, and finally decides that to-mor-
row, come..what may, he metaphori-
cally speaking throw himself at her
feet, and implore forgiveness.
How slowly the train seems to move,
and how intolerable seems the delay at
each station to Disney, as the next morn
ing he travels on his way to BTompley.
Dne half-hour more. and he is fulfilling
ahe guards demands for the shattered
remains of his mutilated ticket. and
wakes to the fact that he has already
Trived at his destination
Hastily procuring his luggage, and en-
gaging the first car convenient, he i'm
mediately proceeds to the hall. Arriv-
ng there, he dismisses the man, and
giving his luggage to the inestimable
Williams, he enters the house.
How good it seems to him being back
sgain, and how small by this have
0orothy's sins grown in his eyes! After
al, how could she help ito He j. sure
he hated having to do il. And how
sould she refuse Lady Rodney, after
promising to play her part2 And, be-
siues, how many women act in private
sheatricals. and shouldn't Dorothy. who
g evidently fitted By nature for that sort
Of sporti And when one comes 10 think
81 i dispassionately, there are few things
1870 innocent IA little tableanx. and
nttle drawing room pieces, and that9
In fact when they are married. he
doesn't see why they shouldn't have pri-
vl<e thcafrlcals once n month. That