You will not hear me told, at any rate, that I had better sit at home and darn my stockings, as you said the other day of that poor unfortunate Mrs Effington Stubbs.
I have not seen you for the last three weeks.

I have a few friends every Tuesday evening;--pray come next week or the week following.
And pray believe that no amount of editorial or critical severity shall make me receive you otherwise than with a smile.
Most sincerely yours, MATILDA CARBURY.
Lady Carbury, having finished her third letter, threw herself back in her chair, and for a moment or two closed her eyes, as though about to rest.

But she soon remembered that the activity of her life did not admit of such rest.

She therefore seized her pen and began scribbling further notes..