In love with me, quotha!" [WIDOW _is led away.

Exeunt_ LADIES.
Thus runs the comedy, trippingly as the tongue of a gay _raconteur_.
Sometimes the scenes are exaggerated, sometimes the characters may be overdrawn, but the satire is true, and the wit is of the best.
Take, for instance, the picture reproduced above.

Are not its colours--albeit bold and merciless--tinged with the redeeming hue of naturalness?
And of you, fair daughters of Eve (if any of you condescend to read these pages), let the author ask one impertinent little question: Is there not something in the conversation of Dick Steele's First Lady, or his Second Lady, or all the other Ladies, which suggests the charity and intellectuality that doth hedge in an afternoon tea?
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