There are women who have natural dignity, and women who have none.
"You ask the names of the gentlemen here:--Lord Carey, Lord Wippern (both leave to-morrow), Sir John Capes, Colonel Barclay, Lord Suckling.

The ladies:--Mrs.Gosling, Miss Gosling, Lady Carey.
Mrs.Anybody--to any extent.
"They pluck hen's feathers all day and half the night.

I see them out, and make my bow to the next batch of visitors, and then I don't know where I am.
"Read poetry, if it makes up for my absence, as you say.

Repeat it aloud, minding the pulsation of feet.

Go to the theatre now and then, and take your landlady with you.