On such subjects, her ladyship treats me quite on the footing of a humble friend.

A complete contrast to the tone she took, Father, when we came to the order of the dishes.

We agreed, of course, about the soup and the fish; but we had a little, a very little, divergence of opinion, as I may call it, on the subject of the dishes to follow.

Her ladyship said, 'First the sweetbreads, and then the cutlets.' I ventured to suggest that the sweetbreads, as white meat, had better not immediately follow the turbot, as white fish.

'The brown meat, my lady,' I said, 'as an agreeable variety presented to the eye, and then the white meat, recalling pleasant remembrances of the white fish.' You see the point, Father ?" "I see, Miss Notman, that you are a consummate mistress of an art which is quite beyond poor me.