THOSE INFELICITOUS SPEECHES
Professor Boreham.—"What! alone, Mrs. Highflyer? Your husband is not ill, I trust!"
Mrs. Highflyer (innocently).—"Oh no; but he was afraid he might be, if he came here!"
SOCIAL PERSEVERANCE
Mrs. Onslow-Pushington.—"What a very singular woman Lady Masham is, Professor! I have called on her every Wednesday this month, and the footman (who knows me perfectly) always said she was out, though Wednesday's her day at home, and there were lots of carriages at the door! She never calls on me—never! And when I bow to her, as I always do, she always looks another way, as she did just now. I must really call again next Wednesday."
THE LAST STRAW!