Why don’t we see you?  Mamma would say nothing if you came.  Papa is never in the drawing-room.  Miss Longestaffe is here of course, and people always come in in the evening.  We are just going to dine out at the Duchess of Stevenage’s.  Papa, and mamma and I. Mamma told me that Lord Nidderdale is to be there, but you need not be a bit afraid.  I don’t like Lord Nidderdale, and I will never take any one but the man I love.  You know who that is.  Miss Longestaffe is so angry because she can’t go with us.  What do you think of her telling me that she did not understand being left alone?  We are to go afterwards to a musical party at Lady Gamut’s...