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The married women at length delivered their reports in a quiet and orderly manner; and as they did not presume to be as contemptuous and offhandish as they had been before, T'an Ch'un eventually cooled down. "I've got something of moment," she then observed to P'ing Erh, "about which I would like to consult your mistress.
"What do the servant-boys know?" T'an Ch'un replied. "Those you chose for me were plain yet not commonplace. Neither were they of coarse make. So were you to procure me as many as you can get of them, I'll work you a pair of slippers like those I gave you last time, and spend twice as much trouble over them as I did over that pair you have. Now, what do you say to this bargain?"
T'an Ch'un was about to pass a remark when a servant reported that the doctor had come; and that he had entered the garden to see Miss Shih. So the matrons were obliged to go and usher the doctor in. "Were there a hundred of you here," promptly expostulated P'ing Erh, "you wouldn't know what propriety means!
Before T'an Ch'un had heard her to the end, she flew into such a rage that her face blanched; and choking for breath, she gasped and panted. Sobbing, she asked the while: "Who's my maternal uncle? My maternal uncle was at the end of the year promoted to be High Commissioner of the Nine Provinces! How can another maternal uncle have cropped up?
Do you also behave in this blind sort of way in the presence of your lady Secunda? This young lady is, it's true, generous and lenient, but I'll go and report you to your mistress. I'll simply tell her that you people have no eye for Miss T'an Ch'un. But when you find yourselves in a mess, don't bear me any malice."
The East wind don't begrudge because its farewell it did take! "It would seem," Chia Cheng suggested, "as if that must be a kite!" "It is," answered T'an C'h'un; whereupon Chia Cheng read the one below, which was written by Tai-yue to this effect and bore upon some thing: After the audience, his two sleeves who brings with fumes replete? Both by the lute and in the quilt, it lacks luck to abide!
In the other, an additional twenty taels had been allowed, as a burial-place had to be purchased at the time. T'an Ch'un handed the accounts to Li Wan for her perusal. "Give her twenty taels," readily suggested T'an Ch'un. "Leave these accounts here for us to examine minutely." Wu Hsin-teng's wife then walked away. But unexpectedly Mrs. Chao entered the hall.
T'an Ch'un and the others were likewise well aware of their object, but they could not, when they saw with what willingness they accepted the charge insist, with any propriety, upon their writing verses, and they felt obliged to say yes. "Your proposals," she consequently said, "may be right enough; but in my views they are ridiculous.
When Pao-yue heard this reply, he unfolded the fancy notepaper. On perusal, he found the contents to be: "Your cousin, T'an Ch'un, respectfully lays this on her cousin Secundus' study-table. When the other night the blue sky newly opened out to view, the moon shone as if it had been washed clean!
It's just three days that I haven't seen anything of you?" "Are you sister quite well?" Pao-yue rejoined, a smile on his lips. "The other day, I asked news of you of our senior sister-in-law." "Brother Pao," T'an Ch'un remarked, "come over here; I want to tell you something." The moment Pao-yue heard this, he quickly went with her.
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