POM. When he admires the wife, he reprobates the husband’s ill-taste in neglecting her.
MABEL. Do you suppose I did not know of his having invited Mrs. Woffington to his house to day?
POM. What! you found her out? you detected the Actress-of-all-work under the airs of Lady Betty Modish.
MABEL. Lady Betty Modish!
POM. Yes; that was La Woffington.
MABEL. Whom he had invited hither to present her with a copy of verses.
POM. Et cetera.
MABEL. And who in an actress’s sudden frolic, gave herself and her companions those titles without my husband’s connivance.
POM. Vane could not have explained it half so well. These women are incredibles.