The Pink Dominos

[7] Six members of the original cast were playing in the piece when the run finished in December 1878: Standing, Ashley and Harris of the men, and Josephs, Davis and Bruce of the women.

From this challenge there follow a couple of little scented notes, written by Maggie's maid, Rebecca, and sent to the respective husbands, suggesting a rendezvous that night at a masked ball at the Cremorne pleasure gardens.

The husbands at once succumb to this temptation; they are ready with plausible excuses for absenting themselves and presently, when each meets the wife of the other disguised by a "pink domino" the complications begin.

They go, in the early hours of the morning, to the same restaurant, where each man has engaged a separate private room, and the imbroglio becomes the more confusing when Rebecca, also wearing a pink domino has, unwilling to lose her share in the night's fun, come to the same establishment escorted by a reasonably virtuous young lawyer, who is the nephew of Maggie's prudish and moralising aunt, Mrs Joskin Tubbs.

Cosy little suppers are ordered, champagne flows freely, and, with three young women in pink masks, the respective couples become considerably mixed, and Rebecca has more than her share of the attentions of each of the male revellers.

In these they find proof positive, as they think, of the identity of the damsel with whom they have achieved a conquest, and, as neither is proud of the adventure, they keep quiet, and are ready to promise fidelity to their accusing wives, who are willing to pardon their faithlessness.