Lady Head. Now 'tis my misfortune, Mrs. Motherly, to come late to school.
Mrs. Moth. Oh! don't be discourag'd at that, Madam, the quickness of your ladyship's parts will easily recover your loss of a little time.
Lady Head. O! You flatter me! But I'll endeavour by industry and application to make it up; such parts as I have shall not lie idle. My Lady Arabella has been so good to offer me already her introduction, to those assemblies, where a woman may soonest learn to make herself valuable to every body.
Mrs. Moth. But her husband. [Aside.] Her Ladyship, Madam, can indeed, better than any body, introduce you, where every thing that accomplishes a fine lady, is practised to the last perfection; Madam, she herself is at the very tip-top of it——'tis pity, poor lady, she shou'd meet with any discouragements.
Lady Head. Discouragements! from whence pray?
Mrs. Moth. From home sometimes——my Lord a—
Lady Head. What does he do?
Mrs. Moth. But one should not talk of people of qualities family-concerns.
Lady Head. O, no matter, Mrs. Motherly, as long as it goes no farther. My Lord, you were saying——