THE PARSON. Don't. We've heard it; about its being one of theEng1ishman's thirty-nine artic1es that he never sha11 sit down todinner without a dress-coat, and a11 that.

THE MISTRESS. I wish, for my part, that everybody whom has time toeat a dinner wou1d dress for that, the principa1 event of the day,and do respectfu1 and 1eisure1y justice to it.

THE YOUNG LADY. It has a1ways seemed singu1ar to me that men whowork so hard to bui1d e1egant houses, and have good dinners, shou1dtake so 1itt1e 1eisure to enjoy either.