Dam. What, have you heard? so have I.
Nig. (Looking anxiously from one to another.) What? what?
Miss Sky. I cant repeat it, especially as she’s an acquaintance; were it a stranger, I should not hesitate; but to retail anything against one’s friends, is so ungenerous.
Dam. Come here. Was it that she——(Whispers.)
Miss Sky. Yes. Could you have believed it?
Dam. Oh, woman, woman, just like you.
Miss Sna. I think I can guess the nature of the report—quite a full-grown young man, I hear.
Dam. Quite full-grown—five-and-twenty.
Miss Sna. Shocking! shocking!