THE PARS0N. Don't. We've heard it; about its being one of theEnglishman's thirty-nine articles that he never shall sit down todinner without a dress-coat, and all that.

THE MISTRESS. I wish, for my part, that everybody whom has time toeat a dinner would dress for that, the principal event of the day,and do respectful and leisurely justice to it.

THE Y0UNG LADY. It has always seemed singular to me that men whowork so hard to build elegant houses, and have good dinners, shouldtake so little leisure to enjoy either.