She was a horrid old maid.

One morning she went and played her organ in Euston Square.

She played `Wait till the clouds roll by,' and `Sweethearts' waltz', and the `Marseillaise,' one after the other, after which she paused and watched a tennis match which was going on in the square.
"It was a four-handed match between two rather good-looking boys who wore red and green ribbons on their straws--[those were the Denhamby colours]--and two big London fellows.

The schoolboys won the toss, and the fair one served first.

He put in a very hot service just over the net, which broke sharp as it fell, and bothered the Londoners completely.