And wild dismay o'er every angry cousin
(Friends of the party), who begin accusals,
Such as—"Unless Miss Blank meant to have chosen
Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals
To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,
Look 'Yes' last night, and yet say 'No' to-day?
XXXV.
"Why?—Why?—Besides, Fred really was attached;
'T was not her fortune—he has enough without;
The time will come she'll wish that she had snatched