DOI article:
Hobbes, John Oliver; Moore, George: The fool's hour: the first act of a comedy
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20196#0277
By John Oliver Hobbes and George Moore 271
Lady Dol. Another engagement, Cyril ?
[Lord Doldrummond enters and comes down, anxiously hoking front
one to the otlier.']
Cyril. Father, this is my friend Mandeville. We have arranged
to go up to town this afternoon.
Lady Do/. [Calmly.] What time shall I send the carriage to the
Station for you ? The last train usually arrives about-
Cyril. I shall not return to-night. I intend to stay in town,
Mandeville will put me up.
Lord Dol. And where are you going ?
Mandeville. He is Coming to our dress rehearsal of the " Dandy
and the Dancer."
Cyril. At the Parnassus. [Lord and Lady Doldrummond
exchange horrißed glances.~\ I daresay you have never heard of the
place, but it amuses me to go there, and I must learn life for
myself. I am two-and-twenty, and it is not extraordinary that I
should wish to be my own master. I intend to have Chambers of
my own in town. ,
Lady Dol. Surely you have every liberty in this house ?
Lord Dol. If you leave us, you will leave the rooms in which
your mother has spent every hour of her life, since the day you
were born, planning and improving. Must all her care and
thought go for nothing ? The silk hangings in your bedroom she
worked with her own hands. There is not so much as a pen-
wiper in your quarter of the house which she did not choose with
the idea of giving you one more token of her affection.
Cyril. I am not ungrateful, but I cannot see much of theworld
through my mother's embroidery. As you say, I have every
comfort here. I may gorge at your expense and snore on your
pillows and bully your servants, I can da everything, in fact, but
live.
Lady Dol. Another engagement, Cyril ?
[Lord Doldrummond enters and comes down, anxiously hoking front
one to the otlier.']
Cyril. Father, this is my friend Mandeville. We have arranged
to go up to town this afternoon.
Lady Do/. [Calmly.] What time shall I send the carriage to the
Station for you ? The last train usually arrives about-
Cyril. I shall not return to-night. I intend to stay in town,
Mandeville will put me up.
Lord Dol. And where are you going ?
Mandeville. He is Coming to our dress rehearsal of the " Dandy
and the Dancer."
Cyril. At the Parnassus. [Lord and Lady Doldrummond
exchange horrißed glances.~\ I daresay you have never heard of the
place, but it amuses me to go there, and I must learn life for
myself. I am two-and-twenty, and it is not extraordinary that I
should wish to be my own master. I intend to have Chambers of
my own in town. ,
Lady Dol. Surely you have every liberty in this house ?
Lord Dol. If you leave us, you will leave the rooms in which
your mother has spent every hour of her life, since the day you
were born, planning and improving. Must all her care and
thought go for nothing ? The silk hangings in your bedroom she
worked with her own hands. There is not so much as a pen-
wiper in your quarter of the house which she did not choose with
the idea of giving you one more token of her affection.
Cyril. I am not ungrateful, but I cannot see much of theworld
through my mother's embroidery. As you say, I have every
comfort here. I may gorge at your expense and snore on your
pillows and bully your servants, I can da everything, in fact, but
live.