Visitor. “I’ve just been to make my first call on Mrs. Johnson.”
Lady of the House. “So glad, dear. Poor thing, she’s glad to know anyone!”
“Oh yes, Sir Gus, my husband’s as well as ever, thank you, and hard at work. I’ve had to copy out his pamphlet on Bi-metallism three times, he alters it so! Ah, it’s no sinecure to be married to a man of genius. I often envy your dear wife!”
THE SOCIETY SWEAR
[“Among upper-class women the use of bad language is awful; not only do elderly dowagers say ‘D—n!’ but girls of seventeen make use of that deplorable expression.”—A correspondent to the Daily Express.]