The acting was for the benefit of such and such an excellent charity--nobody cared what, provided the play were played--and both Captain Maumbry and his wife were in the piece, having been in fact, by mutual consent, the originators of the performance.

And so with laughter, and thoughtlessness, and movement, all went merrily.

There was a little backwardness in the bill-paying of the couple; but in justice to them it must be added that sooner or later all owings were paid..