Hold out a little longer.

This is a ghastly sort of pantomime for you, but there's always a grand transformation scene at the end.

Who knows how soon the curtain will rise on fairyland and the happy lovers and all that bright and sparkling business?
Children demand it--must have it....

And you are very young yet." He laughed, seeing her perplexed expression.
"You don't know what I mean, do you?
Listen, Shiela; stay here to dinner, if you can stand my relatives.

We won't play cards.