12/15 The young man resisted--Mrs.Dewey screamed in terror--people flocked to the place--and mortifying exposure followed. This story was in part corroborated by the following paragraph in the Herald's Saratoga correspondence: "We had a spicy scene, a little out of the regular performance, last evening; no less than the caning of a New York sprig of fashion, who made himself rather more agreeable to a certain married lady who dashes about here in a queenly way than was agreeable to her husband. This morning I missed the lady from her usual place at the breakfast-table. Later in the day I learned that her husband had taken her home. |