_Ch._ Yes, I _did_ offer to provide the breakfast in a reckless moment; that’s so like me. It was a rash offer, but I’ve made it, and I’ve stuck to it. Oh, then, there’s the cake. _Min._ Oh, tell me all about the cake. _Ch._ It’s a very pretty cake. Very little cake is eaten at a wedding breakfast, so I’ve ordered what’s known in the trade as the three-quarter article. _Min._ I see; three-quarters cake, and the rest wood. _Ch._ No; three-quarters wood, the rest cake. Be sure, my dear, you don’t cut into the wood, for it has to be returned to the pastrycook to be filled up with cake for another occasion. _I_ thought at first of ordering a seven-eighths article; but one isn’t married every day--it’s only once a year--I mean it’s only now and then. So I said, “Hang the expense; let’s do the thing well.” And so it’s a three-quarters. _Min._ How good you are to me! We shall be very happy, shall we not? _Ch._ I--I hope so--yes. I _hope_ so. Playfully happy, like two little kittens. _Min._ That will be delightful. _Ch._ Economically happy, like two sensible people. _Min._ Oh, we must be very economical. _Ch._ No vulgar display; no pandering to a jaded appetite. A refined and economical elegance; that is what we must aim at. A simple mutton chop, nicely broiled, for you; and _two_ simple mutton chops, _very_ nicely broiled, for me-- _Min._ And some flowery potatoes-- _Ch._ A loaf of nice household bread-- _Min._ A stick of celery-- _Ch._ And a bit of cheese, and you’ve a dinner fit for a monarch. _Min._ Then how shall we spend our evenings? _Ch._ We’ll have pleasant little fireside games. Are you fond of fireside games? _Min._ Oh, they’re great fun. _Ch._ Then we’ll play at tailoring. _Min._ Tailoring? I don’t think I know that game. _Ch._ It’s a very good game. You shall be the clever little jobbing tailor, and I’ll be the particular customer who brings his own materials to be made up. You shall take my measure, cut out the cloth (real cloth, you know), stitch it together, and try it on; and then I’ll find fault like a real customer, and you shall alter it until it fits, and when it fits beautifully that counts one to you. _Min._ Delightful! _Ch._ Then there’s another little fireside game which is great fun. We each take a bit of paper and a pencil and try who can jot down the nicest dinner for ninepence, and the next day we have it. _Min._ Oh, Cheviot, what a paradise you hold open to me! _Ch._ Yes. How’s papa? _Min._ He’s very well and very happy. He’s going to increase his establishment on the strength of the £1000 a year, and keep a manservant. _Ch._ I know. I’ve been looking after some servants for him; they’ll be here in the course of the morning. A cook, a housemaid, and a footman. I found them through an advertisement. They’re country people, and will come very cheap. _Min._ How kind and thoughtful you are! Oh, Cheviot, I’m a very lucky girl! [_Exit MINNIE._