_Another_ reading by the Rev .-- --" Here Conolly, who had been putting on his overcoat, picked the program deftly from his sister's fingers, and left the room.

She, after damning him very heartily, returned to the glass, and continued dressing, taking her tea at intervals until she was ready to go out, when she sent for a cab, and bade the driver convey her to the Bijou Theatre, Soho.
Conolly, on arriving at the Wandsworth Town Hall, was directed to a committee room, which served as green-room on this occasion.

He was greeted by a clean shaven young clergyman who protested that he was glad to see him there, but did not offer his hand.

Conolly thanked him briefly, and went without further ceremony to the table, and was about to place his hat and overcoat on a heap of similar garments, when, observing that there were some hooks along the wall, he immediately crossed over and hung up his things on them, thereby producing an underbred effect of being more prudent and observant than the rest.

Then he looked at his program, and calculated how soon his turn to sing would come.