'This is a most interesting discussion.' 'But it is known to all that Englishmen don't get married any more!' cried Madame Variani.

'I read in an English novel the other day that it is spoiling your English society, that the charming girls wait and wait--and nobody marries them.' 'Well, there are no English young ladies present,' said the Ambassador, looking round the table; 'so we may proceed.

How do you account for this phenomenon, Madame ?' 'Oh! you have now too many French cooks in England!' said Madame Variani, shrugging her plump shoulders.
'What in the world has that got to do with it ?' cried the Ambassador.
'Your young men are too comfortable,' said the lady, with a calm wave of the hand towards Reggie Brooklyn.

'That's what I am told.

I ask an English lady, who knows both France and England--and she tells me--your young men get now such good cooking at their clubs, and at the messes of their regiments--and their sports amuse them so well, and cost so much money--they don't want any wives!--they are not interested any more in the girls.