THIS is so kind, my sweet friend, to come to see me at this moment. I declare, if I were going to be married in a few days, as you are, I should scarce have found time to visit my friends.
MARIA
Do you think, then, that there is an impropriety in it?—How should you dispose of your time?
CHARLOTTE
Why, I should be shut up in my chamber; and my head would so run upon—upon—upon the solemn ceremony that I was to pass through!—I declare, it would take me above two hours merely to learn that little monosyllable—Yes. Ah! my dear, your sentimental imagination does not conceive what that little tiny word implies.
MARIA Spare me your raillery, my sweet friend; I should love your agreeable vivacity at any other time.
CHARLOTTE
Why, this is the very time to amuse you. You grieve me to see you look so unhappy.
MARIA
Have I not reason to look so?