We might provide them with swords and snuff-boxes.
They might meet, say, once a week, in a Queen Anne drawing-room, especially prepared by Gillow, and go through their tricks.

Authors seeking high-class comedy might be admitted to a gallery.
Perhaps this explains why old-fashioned readers complain that we do not give them human nature.

How can we?
Ladies and gentlemen nowadays don't wear the proper clothes.

Evidently it all depends upon the clothes..