_Lord Strath._ Not yet, MARJORY--I can't let you go just yet!... Must I, really? Before I've said half what I wanted!... Well--in one minute, then. And you're coming to my people as soon as you can get out of this, MARJORY; and I shall see you every day, till--till we shall never be separated any----Confound it!--who's that? [Mr. TIDMARSH _enters suddenly._ _Mr. Tid._ Oh--er--Lord STRATHSPORRAN, sorry to interrupt you, but--hem--my wife, who's feeling too unwell to come down again, desires me to say that, in her opinion, Miss SEATON has been here quite long enough. [Miss SEATON _escapes by the back drawing-room._ _Lord Strath._ I entirely agree with Mrs. TIDMARSH; but I am happy to say that Miss SEATON will not remain here very much longer, as she has just done me the honour of consenting to be my wife. Good night, Sir, and many thanks for a most er--eventful evening. [_He goes out._ _Mr. Tid._ (_making an effort to escort him downstairs, but giving it up, and sitting down heavily on a settee instead_). She'll be Lady STRATHSPORRAN! And I shall have to break it to MARIA--after she's just gone in and stuck a month's salary and immediate notice on her pincushion! Oh, lor--as if my poor wife hadn't trouble enough to bear as it was! THE END. * * * * * HARE-ING HIS DIPLOMACY. As I have already conveyed, in a short note last week, the first night of the revival of _Diplomacy_, viz., Saturday, Feb. 18th, will be for ever memorable in the annals of the English stage in general, and in the reminiscences of Mr. JOHN HARE in particular, whenever he may choose to give them to the public. It will also afford matter for a brilliant chapter in the second or third series of Mr. and Mrs. BANCROFT'S _On and Off the Stage_. A great night, too, for the eminent adapters Messrs. SCOTT and STEPHENSON, once known as "the Brothers ROWE," who rowed in the same boat. Never, at any time, has this version of the French play been so well cast as it is now at Garrick Theatre, though nervousness told on all the actors, especially on the elder ones, except, apparently, Mrs. BANCROFT, in whose performance there was hardly any trace of it, though once she nearly missed her cue while resting awhile at the back of the stage. The part of _Lady Henry Fairfax_ has literally nothing whatever to do with the plot, and were it not played as it is now, and played so capitally by Mrs. BANCROFT, it would be better, for an English audience at least, if omitted entirely, or reduced to a few appropriate lines in pleasant places. An English audience wants the story, when once begun, to go on without any break or interruption; and indeed, but for dramatic effect, an English audience is inclined to resent even the division of a piece into Acts, unless such arrangement is evidently necessitated by some heavy mechanical change of scenery.