PAST AND PRESENT.
Serious and much-Married Man. "My dear Friend, I was astonished to hear of your dining at Madame Troisétoiles!—a 'Woman with a Past,' you know!"
The Friend (Bachelor "unattached"). "Well, you see, old Man, she's got a first-rate Chef, so it isn't her 'Past,' but her 'Re-past' that I care about."