Answer. Certainly. For the last month I have scarcely ever been to bed.
Q. Why?
A. Somehow I have not retired to rest before it has been time to get up.
Q. Did you go to the Abbey?
A. That I did! Most touching! Shall never forget——
Q. Thank you. I think I can supply as much as you want of that sort of thing. I will not trouble you for any descriptions. Were you at the Guildhall Ball?
A. I was, and saw all the foreign Royalties.
Q. How did the Lord Mayor get through it?
A. On the whole, well; although the Remembrancer, in a full-bottomed wig, rushing about, in a very energetic fashion, was suggestive of Fusbos in Bombastes Furioso.
Q. Were you at the Royal Academy Soirée?