If you pay her a morning visit, you will have some such conversation as follows.
"Pray, Mr ——, is there any news to-day?"
"Great distress, I understand, throughout the country."
"Indeed—the old story, shocking—very.—Pray, have you heard the delightful news? The Princess-Royal has actually cut a tooth!"
"Indeed?"
"Yes, I assure you; and the sweet little royal love of a martyr has borne it like a hero."
"Positively?"
"Positively, I assure you; Doctor Tryiton has just returned from a consultation with his friend Sir Henry, upon a particularly difficult case—Lord Scruffskin—case of elephantiasis I think they call it, and tells me that Sir Henry has arrives express from Windsor with the news."
"Indeed!"
"Do you think, Mr ——, there will be a general illumination?"