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 Juliet pleaded again the directions of Miss Joddrel.

"Miss Joddrel told you to come, then, only to come?—Only to shew yourself?—Well, you are worth looking at, I acknowledge, to those who have seen you formerly. The transformation must always be curious: I only hope you intend to renew it, from time to time, to keep admiration alive? That pretty face you exhibit at present, may lose its charms, if it should become familiar. When shall you put on the other again, that I had the pleasure to see you in first?"

Fatigued and spiritless, Juliet would have retired; but Mrs. Ireton called after her, "O! you are going, are you? Pray may I take the liberty to ask whither?"

Again Juliet was silent.

"You mean perhaps to repose yourself?—or, may be, to pursue your studies?—or, perhaps, you may have some visits upon your hands?—And you may only have done me the favour to