Do speak to me!” The Dame was dumb—

E’en as before.

And when she would have left her seat,

She all but tumbled in the street;

Her state, in fact, the house alarms,

When, leaning on the flunkey’s arms,

She gains her door.

“Be quick and heat my grandma’s bed!”

The Honourable Miss Alice said:

“Let well warmed bricks in flannel wrapp’d