Fred monologue (Act 2) — Three Hats: A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts

(following them he has door slammed in his face, then putting down hat and Directory) What _does_ this mean? I'm sent on a wild goose chase after a confounded Tompkins and on my return I am coolly snubbed by the wife and daughter of the man for whom I am slaving! I won't put up with it! No! Thirty-seven Tompkinses have I tracked to their several and respective abodes. Most of them lived at the top of the houses, too! (Noting card left by BLITHERS.) What's this, "Bosco Blithers!" What does it mean? He's my Lottie's father-in-law--what can _he_ want here? Pshaw! He can't have called here at all, I must have dropped the card myself! (Sitting down again, L.)