"'
COLONEL, in high good humour, 'Don't forget the ring, Billy. You know,
when I was married I think I couldn't find the ring!'
KARL. 'Were you married here, sir?'
COLONEL. 'Yes, at the village church.'
BILLY. 'So were my father and mother.'
COLONEL, as his eyes wander to the garden, 'I remember walking back with
my wife and bringing her in here through the window. She kissed some of
the furniture.'
BILLY. 'I suppose you would like a grander affair, Barbara?'
BARBARA. 'No, just the same.'
BILLY. 'I hoped you would say that.'
BARBARA. 'But, Billy, I'm to have such a dream of a wedding gown.
Granny is going with me to London, to choose it'--laying her head on the
Colonel's shoulder--'if you can do without her for a day, dear.'
COLONEL, gallantly, 'I shall go with you, I couldn't trust you and
granny to choose the gown.'
KARL. 'You must often be pretty lonely, sir, when we are all out and
about enjoying ourselves.'
COLONEL. 'They all say that. But that is the time when I'm not lonely,
Karl. It's then I see things most clearly--the past, I suppose.
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