CARRIE. Did the rest of us go through here?
JINNY. I beg your pardon?
CARRIE. Thirty-four people with a gassy guide? We got so tired hearing
him talk that we jes' sneaked off by ourselves, and now we're a little
scared about getting home; we belong to the Cook's Gentlemen and Ladies.
JINNY. Oh, no, the others haven't passed through here; probably they
have gone to see the pictures; you'd better go back and keep asking the
attendants the way to the pictures till you get there.
MRS. LOPP. [_With rather subdued voice._] Thank you! We've come to do
Europe and the Holy Land in five weeks for $400--but I don't know, seems
as if I'm getting awful tired--after jes' sevin days.
CARRIE. [_Affectionately._] Now, mommer, don't give up; it's because you
haven't got over being seasick yet; that's all!
JINNY. [_Helplessly._] Oh, yes, you'll find it much less tiring in a few
days, I'm sure.
MRS. LOPP. Still Rome does seem a powerful way from _home_! How'll we
ask for the pictures?
CARRIE. Why, mommer! "Tableaux!" "Tableaux!" I should think you'd 'a'
learned that from our church entertainments! Good-by; thank you ever so
much.
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