You must take matters easy, my dear,--you, with your beauty, and your style, and your money.

Why, you can lead all New York captive! Forty fellows like Charlie are not worth spoiling one's dinner for.

Come, cheer up; positively I shan't let you be blue, _ma reine_.

Let me ring for your maid to dress you for dinner.

_Au revoir_." The fact was, that Mrs.Lillie, having formerly set down this lovely Charlie on the list of her own adorers, had small sympathy with the sentimental romance of her friend.
"What a fool she makes of herself!" she thought, as she contemplated her own sylph-like figure and wonderful freshness of complexion in the glass.