It is astonishing how far a very little cake will go in this way, particularly if administered tolerably early after dinner.

The men can't eat it, and the women, having no plates and no table, are obliged to abstain.

Mrs.Jones knows that she cannot hold a piece of crumbly cake in her hand till it be consumed without doing serious injury to her best dress.

When Mrs.Proudie, with her weekly books before her, looked into the financial upshot of her conversazione, her conscience told her that she had done the right thing.

Going out to tea is not a bad thing, if one can contrive to dine early, and then be allowed to sit round a big table with a tea urn in the middle.