McTeague, though he caught but a third of the jokes, could have listened all night.
After the comedians had gone out, the iron advertisement curtain was let down.
"What comes now ?" said McTeague, bewildered.
"It's the intermission of fifteen minutes now." The musicians disappeared through the rabbit hutch, and the audience stirred and stretched itself.

Most of the young men left their seats.
During this intermission McTeague and his party had "refreshments." Mrs.
Sieppe and Trina had Queen Charlottes, McTeague drank a glass of beer, Owgooste ate the orange and one of the bananas.

He begged for a glass of lemonade, which was finally given him.
"Joost to geep um quiet," observed Mrs.Sieppe.
But almost immediately after drinking his lemonade Owgooste was seized with a sudden restlessness.

He twisted and wriggled in his seat, swinging his legs violently, looking about him with eyes full of a vague distress.

At length, just as the musicians were returning, he stood up and whispered energetically in his mother's ear.