Mr. Joseph Lebanon.
And very good skirts too when she makes ’em.
Mrs. Gaylustre.
Jo, drop that.
Mr. Joseph Lebanon.
Excuse my humour, Fan. As for me, from those early boy’ood’s days when I made temporary advances of ha’pence to my sister Fanny, promptly and without inquiry, I have devoted myself to finance.
Lady Twombley.
Finance!
Mr. Joseph Lebanon.
But now, Lady T—to use a poetic figure—I am prepared to cut an eight on the frozen lake of gentility.