Captain Elisha turned and surveyed the great interior and the brilliantly garbed audience.
"Whew!" he muttered.

"This is considerable of a show in itself, Jim.
They could put our town hall inside here and the folks on the roof wouldn't be so high as those in that main skys'l gallery up aloft there.
Can they see or hear, do you think ?" "Oh, yes.

The accepted idea is that they are the real music lovers.
_they_ come for the opera itself.

Some of the others come because--well, because it is the proper thing." "Yes, yes; I see.

That's the real article right over our heads, I suppose." "Yes.