These two respectable friends now took leave of each other, as we will of the subject, pour le moment, au moins.
I rather think it must have been on the very day the above scene took place that Fanny, Julia, and myself dined together at my house, and Amy unasked joined us after dinner; because she had nothing better to do.
"You are welcome," said I to Amy, "so that you bring me no men; but men I will not admit."
"Why not?" Amy inquired.
"Why? because I am not a coquette like you, and it fatigues me to death to be eternally making the agreeable to a set of men who might be all buried and nobody would miss them. Besides, I have seen such a man!"
"What manner of man have you seen?" asked Fanny.
"A very god!" retorted I.
"Who is he?" inquired Amy.
"I do not know," was my answer.