TOO AWFUL TO CONTEMPLATE!
A Confidence. After the Garden Party.
"Oh, such a dreadful Thing happened to Me! I went up to Lady Exe,—I had something very particular to say to her,—and I didn't see she was talking to one of the Royal Princes. Well, just fancy! I took no sort of Notice of him, but I just said what I had to say to her. When I discovered what I had done, I called on Lady Exe, and I said, 'I'm afraid His Royal Highness will be awfully annoyed with me.' And dear Lady Exe quite comforted me, you know. She said, 'If I were you, I wouldn't trouble myself about it. He won't take any notice of it; as really, my Dear, people have such Bad Manners nowadays!'"