PLAYED HIS PART WELL

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 18

PLAYED HIS PART WELL

' Henry, I want you to understand distinctly that I do not wish to be taken for a bride. lam going to behave exactly as if I were an old married woman. So, dearest, do not think mo cold and unloving if I treat you very practically when there is anybody by.' ' I don't believe that I can pass for »n old married man. I am so fond of youi that lam bound to show it. lam sure to give the snap away.' ' No, you musn't. It's easy enough. And I insist that you behave just like old married men do. Do you hear ?' ' Well, darling, I'll try, but I know I will not succeed.' The first evening of their arrival the bride retired to her chamber and the groom fell in with a poker party, with whom he sat playing cards until 4 o'clock in the morning. His wife spent the weary hours waiting. At last he turned up and met his grief-stricken bride with the hilarious question : ' Well, ain't I doing the old married man like a daisy ?' She never referred to the subject again and everybody knew after that that they had just been married.