Surely we have not been forgotten?
My good madam, please remember that (in his own eyes, at least) the Man is a very great personage, and that we are personages of small account.
No matter. My husband often asserts that it is we who do the Man honour by accepting his invitations—not the Man who does us honour by according them. We are rich ourselves, for that matter.
And if one should also take into account the reputation of his wife——!
Has any one seen a footman, sent to summon us to supper? Perhaps he is looking for us in one of the other rooms?
How rich the Man must be!
Yet wealth may be acquired without dipping one's hands into other people's pockets.
Hush! Only the Man's Enemies say that.
Indeed? And do they not comprise among their number men of the highest honour? My husband is one of them.
How late it is getting!