The _kitchen_[74] is just coming in, and I _feel_ a _smell of tea_, so when I get my _four hours,_ that will refresh me and set me up again .-- I am, your affectionate aunt, ISABEL DINGWALL." This letter, then, we suppose written by a very old Forfarshire lady to her niece in England, and perhaps the young lady who received it might answer it in a style as strange to her aunt as her aunt's is to her, especially if she belonged to that lively class of our young female friends who indulge a little in phraseology which they have imbibed from their brothers, or male cousins, who have, perhaps for their amusement, encouraged them in its use.

The answer, then, might be something like this; and without meaning to be severe or satirical upon our young lady friends, I may truly say that, though I never heard from one young lady _all_ these fast terms, I have heard the most of them separately from many:-- "My Dear Aunty--Many thanks for your kind letter and its enclosure.

From my not knowing Scotch, I am not quite up to the mark, and some of the expressions I don't _twig_ at all.
Willie is absent for a few days, but when he returns home he will explain it; he is quite _awake_ on all such things.

I am glad you are pleased that Willie and I are now _spliced_.

I am well aware that you will hear me spoken of in some quarters as a _fast_ young lady.