sorrow,
That I shall say good night, till it be morrow,"'

sighed Juliet passionately to her Romeo.

"Mercy! I hope not," whispered Billy flippantly in Bertram's ear. "I'm
sure I don't want to stay here till to-morrow! I want to go home and see
Baby."

"_Billy!_" pleaded Bertram so despairingly, that Billy, really
conscience-smitten, sat back in her seat and remained, for the rest of
the act, very quiet indeed.

Deceived by her apparent tranquillity, Bertram turned as the curtain
went down.

"Now, Billy, surely you don't think it'll be necessary to telephone so
soon as this again," he ventured.

Billy's countenance fell.

"But, Bertram, you _said_ you would! Of course if you aren't willing
to--but I've been counting on hearing all through this horrid long act,
and--"

"Goodness me, Billy, I'll telephone every minute for you, of course, if
you want me to," cried Bertram, springing to his feet, and trying not to
show his impatience.

He was back more promptly this time.

"Everything O. K.," he smiled reassuringly into Billy's anxious eyes.
"Delia said she'd just been up, and the little chap was sound asleep."

To the man's unbounded surprise, his wife grew actually white.

"Up! Up!" she exclaimed. "Do you mean that Delia went down-stairs to
_stay_, and left my baby up there alone?"

"But, Billy, she said he was all right," murmured Bertram, softly,
casting uneasy sidelong glances at his too interested neighbors.

"'All right'! Perhaps he was, _then_--but he may not be, later. Delia
should stay in the next room all the time, where she could hear the
least thing."

"Yes, dear, she will, I'm sure, if you tell her to," soothed Bertram,
quickly. "It'll be all right next time."

Billy shook her head. She was obviously near to crying.

"But, Bertram, I can't stand it to sit here enjoying myself all safe and
comfortable, and know that Baby is _alone_ up there in that great big
room! Please, _please_ won't you go and telephone Delia to go up _now_
and stay there?"

Bertram, weary, sorely tried, and increasingly aware of those annoyingly
interested neighbors, was on the point of saying a very decided no; but
a glance into Billy's pleading eyes settled it. Without a word he went
back to the telephone.

The curtain was up when he slipped into his seat, very red of face. In
answer to Billy's hurried whisper he shook his head; but in the short
pause between the first and second scenes he said, in a low vo