ABSTRACT

‘Upon my word it is too bad! Lady Strathallan should be informed of it – she really should!’ Such was the decision of a discreet old lady, at a card party at Mrs. Stockwell’s, consisting of all the Bourgeois gentry of the town and neighbourhood, while the mistress of the house, affecting rather to pity, and defend the persons mentioned, than to blame them, artfully contrived to draw out the whole of the articles of accusation.