WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS IN THE LOWTHER ARCADE ON A RAINY DAY. A Farce, IN ONE ACT. BY JOHN MADDISON MORTON, _(Member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society),_ AUTHOR OF _Away with Melancholy, From Village to Court, Whitebait at Greenwich, To Paris and Back for Five Pounds, The Woman I Adore, A Capital Match, The Two Bonnycastles, Who Stole the Pocket-book, Your Life’s in Danger, The Midnight Watch, Going to the Derby, Box and Cox, Done on Both Sides, Poor Pillicoddy, Young England, The King and I, My Wife’s Second Floor, Double-Bedded Room, Wedding Breakfast, The Milliners’ Holiday, The Irish Tiger, Who’s the Composer, Who do they take me for? The Attic Story, Brother Ben, Who’s my Husband? Slasher and Crasher, Old Honesty, &c._ THOMAS HAILES LACY, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, LONDON. _First Performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, on Monday, June 26th, 1854._ _Characters._ JOHN HORATIO O’WALKER ... MR. LEIGH MURRAY. MR. BARBICAN BROWN ... MR. PAUL BEDFORD. SCHNIPPS (_a Tailor_) ... MR. GARDEN. BEADLE ... MR. J. SAUNDERS MRS. JELLICOE ... MISS CUTHBERT. FANNY ... MISS EMMA HARDING. MISS PATTY PECKOVER ... MISS FANNY MASKELL. _Pedestrians, &c._ _Time in Representation—50 minutes._ _Costumes._ O’WALKER. Black frock coat, white trousers, white hat. BROWN. Brown coat, nankeen trousers. SCHNIPPS. Eccentric dress. BEADLE. Brown suit with gold binding. MRS. JELLICOE. Silk dress, velvet mantle and bonnet. FANNY. Walking dress. PATTY. Blue muslin dress, red scarf, and white bonnet. WAITING FOR AN OMNIBUS. SCENE.—_Interior of the Lowther Arcade. The Strand Entrance supposed to be at L. side; shops and stalls with goods exposed running across at back of stage; PEDESTRIANS, male and female children walking to and fro at L., a number of people standing, others make their way in with umbrellas up, which they put down and join the PROMENADERS; the BEADLE of the arcade occasionally seen; heavy rain heard._ MRS. J. (_without, L._) Now, gentlemen, stand aside—don’t quite block up the way if you please! (_forces her way through crowd, L., followed by FANNY; they have their parasols up, which they immediately put down_) Mercy on us! here’s a day! this is something like rain. FANNY. (L.) Yes, mamma, very like it indeed. MRS. JELLICOE. (R.) However, now we are safe under cover, my dear, suppose we see what we’ve got to do to-day. First, there’s the upholsterer’s; then the milliner’s; then the jeweller’s; then the printer’s—— FANNY. The printer’s—what for? MRS. J. What for! why, to order the wedding cards to be sure! FANNY. Lor, mamma! MRS. J. (_imitating_) Lor, mamma! just as if you’re not ready to jump out of your wits for joy all the time! I’m sure when I was engaged to your papa, I was so happy, I did nothing but cry all day long for weeks together: but, perhaps I was more in love with the late lamented Jellicoe, than you are with Mr. O’Walker?