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"Don't say that, mother; it would be a punishment too severe," said the mischievous little pale sister, in tones of pity, and her face brimming with mirth. Everybody laughed, and peace was restored. On the third evening, misery came to me in an envelope post-marked New York: "My DEAR PLOVINS: "I shall be with you the night after you receive this. Engage a room for me.
Plovins," said the fair enslaver; "I hope you have not been unwell?" "Unwell? oh, no, no!" A sudden hope mounted within me. "Miss Tarlingford, pray, excuse me, your first name, may I ask what it is?" "Oh, hideous horror! And this is what they call flirtation," I thought. And the hope which had risen blazing, like a rocket, went down fuliginous, like the stick. "Mr.
Plovins, I will say you are very very inconstant, to be absent all day, thus." "Miss Tarlingford, it is not inconstancy, it is billiards." "Billiards!" "Billiards. I adore them. You know nothing of billiards; women never do. They are my joy. "Dear me! I should like to do billiards." "Heaven forbid!" "Why so, Sir?" "No, I do not mean that; but ladies never play billiards."
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