“You were? Why, I came with my verses, and she said you were not there! I will go fetch the verses.”
“No, no! Who said I was not there?”
“Did I not tell you? The charming young lady who helped me with her own hand to everything on the table. What wine that gentleman possesses!”
“Was it a young lady, Triplet?”
“Not more than two-and-twenty, I should say.
“In a traveling-dress?”
“I could not see her dress, madam, for her beauty—brown hair, blue eyes, charming in conversation—”
“Ah! What did she tell you?”
“She told me, madam—Ahem!”
“Well, what did you tell her? And what did she answer?”