—And that the dear Duchess of Bohemia insists on spending the whole of their mutual time in the obscurity of a “movie” theatre—
—Whereas when Cousin Tom from the country, with absolute sartorial indifference to the conventions of London, induces her to drive out in his second-hand Ford, Eve meets and sees everyone she has been trying to impress favourably for seasons past?
A
Matrimonial
Puzzle—
—and Eve
as a
Chaperone.
This is Eve congratulating her two dear friends—Miss Verry-Pretty and Miss Plain—on their engagements. She is expressing the usual frantic anxiety to meet the happy fiancés
She meets them, and wonders again for the nth time why it is that the pretty girls are nearly always captured by the—well—ordinary-looking men, while those less favoured by Nature so often bag veritable Adonises
Eve, burdened with the responsibilities of her unmarried sisters, Evelyn and Evelinda, is always endeavouring to get them suitably paired. She finds it very annoying that when she takes them out to dine with her very highly respectable cousin, the Countess of Crimp, they meet so many people like Mr. Snob, Captain Auction-Bridge, and Mr. Toady