CHAPTER 6.
The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion, originality of thought, and literary taste which marked the reasonableness of that attachment.
They met by appointment; and as Isabella had arrived nearly five minutes before her friend, her first address naturally was, "My dearest creature, what can have made you so late?
I have been waiting for you at least this age!" "Have you, indeed! I am very sorry for it; but really I thought I was in very good time.

It is but just one.

I hope you have not been here long ?" "Oh! These ten ages at least.

I am sure I have been here this half hour.
But now, let us go and sit down at the other end of the room, and enjoy ourselves.

I have an hundred things to say to you.