If either lady is about to leave the city, she goes to the other's house and leaves her card with "P.

P.C." engraved under the name--which signifies, "Pay Parting Call." But enough of etiquette.

Laura was early instructed in the mysteries of society life by a competent mentor, and thus was preserved from troublesome mistakes.
The first fashionable call she received from a member of the ancient nobility, otherwise the Antiques, was of a pattern with all she received from that limb of the aristocracy afterward.

This call was paid by Mrs.
Major-General Fulke-Fulkerson and daughter.

They drove up at one in the afternoon in a rather antiquated vehicle with a faded coat of arms on the panels, an aged white-wooled negro coachman on the box and a younger darkey beside him--the footman.