'
'That's true,' said Geoff, thoughtfully. 'But we can't have any
Adam's cottage. We talked it over last night, and decided it
"couldn't be did."'
'Did you indeed!' exclaimed Bell, sarcastically. 'Then allow me to
remark that you three boys represent a very obtuse triangle.'
'Thanks, most acid Rosalind!' murmured Geoff, meekly. 'Could you
deign, as spokesman of the very acute triangle, to suggest
something?'
'Certainly. There is the rear of the brush kitchen in plain sight,
to convey the idea of a rustic hut. To be sure, it's a good distance
to the left, but let the audience screw round in their seats when
they hear the voices, and Adam, Oliver, and Orlando can walk out
carelessly, and go through their scene right there.'
'Admirable!' quoth Geoff. 'We bow to your superior judgment.'
'What an inspiration that was to bring those Chinese lanterns for the
Fourth of July; they have just saved us from utter ruin,' said
Margery, who was quietly making leaf-trimming.
'Yes, the effect is going to be perfectly gorgeous!' exclaimed Polly,
clasping her hands in anticipation. 'How many have we? Ten? Oh,
that's splendid; and how many candles?'
'As many as we care to use,' Phil answered, from the top of the
ladder where he was at work. 'And look at my arrangement for holding
them to these trees. Aren't they immense?'
'By the way,' said Bell, 'don't forget the mossy banks under those
trees, for stage seats; and make me some kind of a thing on the left
side, to swoon on when I sniff Orlando's gory handkerchief.
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