Nous lui demandâmes si elle faisait, encore, lit à part?
Elle répondit que non.
"And what sort of a man is Lord Berwick?"
"Oh, he is a very violent man indeed."
Sophia insisted on Fanny remaining her visitor for a week, which invitation, as Parker had no fixed residence in town, she gladly accepted. Sophia had at her command a very handsome equipage, in which we all three drove out on the day after my arrival.
We called on sister Paragon, whom we found greatly agitated.
"What is the matter?" we both asked at once.
"Oh," said Paragon, "do you hear the screams of that infant?"
"Yes, how shocking! It is not one of yours, however," said I, as I counted her pretty little family, who, as usual, were all seated close to her side.
"They proceed from my landlady's child, whose mother insists I have half killed it, and that it never was in such pain before. In short, she declares she apprehends a convulsion fit."