numerous changes of pitch. Practise it until your delivery would cause a

stranger in the next room to think you were discussing an actual incident with a

friend, instead of delivering a memorized monologue. If you are in doubt about

the effect you have secured, repeat it to a friend and ask him if it sounds like

memorized words. If it does, it is wrong.

 

_A SIMILAR CASE_

 

Jack, I hear you've gone and done it.--Yes, I know; most fellows will; went and

tried it once myself, sir, though you see I'm single still. And you met her--did

you tell me--down at Newport, last July, and resolved to ask the question at a

_soiree_? So did I.

 

I suppose you left the ball-room, with its music and its light; for they say

love's flame is brightest in the darkness of the night. Well, you walked along

together, overhead the starlit sky; and I'll bet--old man, confess it--you were

frightened. So was I.

 

So you strolled along the terrace, saw the summer moonlight pour all its

radiance on the waters, as they rippled on the shore, till at length you

gathered courage, when you saw that none was nigh--did you draw her close and

tell her that you loved her? So did I.

 

Well, I needn't ask you further, and I'm sure I wish you joy. Think I'll wander

down and see you when you're married--eh, my boy? When the honeymoon is over and