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enters by a door behind the Ladies, but stops short on hearing their conversation.

What a long sober face you put on! What are you thinking of now?

Matrimony is a duller thing than I took it to be.

Indeed!

I was too foolish: I might have had my amusement for another good winter at least, and have married him after all, if I liked it.

So you married to amuse yourself?

My dear girl, what could I do? I was with my stiff grave cousins in the country: I was disappointed of a trip to the Continent; the Bath season was still distant, and there was neither county ball, horse-race, nor strolling players in all the country round: so when Charville presented himself again, and renewed his addresses, I was ready to have flown with him to the moon. And now, my dear little sister, if there be any grace in thee, let us have some amusement.