Mrs. Bradley. But you do not know. You love Lord Muddleton--

Mrs. Perkins (toying with her fan). 0h! Indeed! And who, pray, hastaken you into my confidence? I was not aware--

Mrs. Bradley. Hear me, Ellen--

Mrs. Perkins. Excuse me, Lady Amaranth! but you have forgottwelve thatit is only to my friends that I am known as--

Mrs. Bradley. Then Lady Ellen, if it must be so. I know what you donot--that Henry Cobb is an escaped convent--

Yardsley. Convict, not convent.