[CHAPTER IX.]
A WET DAY.
RAIN—THE MEDFORDS—CONVERSATION—A PROPOSAL—ACCEPTED—THE TRICK—THE LECTURE.
rovoking! “I do believe,” says Miss Adelaide Cherton, “it's literally set in for rain.”
Mrs. Boodels, without troubling herself to raise her ear-trumpet, smiles blandly and proceeds with her knitting.
Happy Thought. A deaf person can always talk to herself, and obtain a hearing.
Miss Bella exclaims, “Oh, what shall we do if it rains?”
Whereupon Miss Medford observes that the gentlemen will amuse us.
[Miss Medford is an addition to our party. She was brought by Mrs. Orby Frimmely, and Mr. Frimmely subsequently came down with her brother Alfred Medford, a celebrated musical amateur, “of the nobility's concerts.” “A very interesting looking young man,” Mrs. Boodels observes aloud when he arrives, but she is a little afraid of him on finding that he can do a conjuring trick. He only has one.]