Mrs. Wharton.
I remember it well. I had it dyed black its third year. I think the fashions were very much more ladylike in those days. A bustle did set off a woman’s figure, there’s no denying that.
Dr. Macfarlane.
What waists you had and how tight you used to lace!
Mrs. Wharton.
I often wonder if the young people ever enjoy themselves as much as we used to. Do you remember the picnics we used to have?
Mrs. Littlewood.
And now it’s all as if it had never been, all our love and pain and joy and sorrow. We’re just two funny old women, and it really wouldn’t have mattered a row of pins if we’d never been born.
Dr. Macfarlane.
I wonder, I wonder.