Excerpt from The New Prince Fortunatus
When the curtain fell on the last act of The Squire's Daughter, the comedy-opera that had taken all musical London by storm, a tall and elegant young English matron and her still taller brother rose from their places in the private box they had been occupying, and made ready to depart; and he had just assisted her to put on her long-skirted coat of rose-red plush when an attendant made his appearance.
"Mr. Moore's compliments, your ladyship, and will you please to step this way?"
The box was close to the stage. Lady Adela Cunyngham and her brother Lord Rockminster followed their guide through a narrow little door and almost at once found themselves in the wings, amid the usual motley crowd of gas-men, scene-shifters, dressers, and the like. But the company were still fronting the footlights; for there had been a general recall, and the curtain bad gone up again; and probably, during this brief second of scrutiny, it may have seemed odd to these two strangers to find themselves looking not at rows of smiling faces on the stage but at the backs of the heads of the performers.
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