He has asked them to welcome his wife.'" "Poor thing!" muttered Triplet.
"Oh, Mr.Triplet! they were there to do honor to -- --, and the wife was neither expected nor desired.

There lay my letters with their seals unbroken.

I know all _his_ letters by heart, Mr.Triplet.The seals unbroken--unbroken! Mr.Triplet." "It is abominable!" cried Triplet fiercely.

"And she who sat in my seat--in his house, and in his heart--was this lady, the actress you so praised to me ?" "That lady, ma'am," said Triplet, "has been deceived as well as you." "I am convinced of it," said Mabel.
"And it is my painful duty to tell you, madam, that, with all her talents and sweetness, she has a fiery temper; yes, a very fiery temper," continued Triplet, stoutly, though with an uneasy glance in a certain direction; "and I have reason to believe she is angry, and thinks more of her own ill-usage than yours.

Don't you go near her.
Trust to my knowledge of the sex, madam; I am a dramatic writer.