If "Souls" are not the things they were,

If caste declines and Vandals

Go practically everywhere

From Cavendish to Berkeley Square,

And dowdy frumps without the "air"

Monopolise the scandals;

There is but one thing left to do—

And what's a sporting flutter worth

Unless one takes a risk or two?—

"I'll shock the world," I thought, "anew,"