_Clar._ Why, don't you think, that with the further aid of breakfasting, dining, supping and sleeping (not to say a word of devotion) the four and twenty hours might roll over in a tolerable manner? Lady _Ara._ How I detest that word, Tolerable! And so will a country relation of ours that's newly come to town, or I'm mistaken. _Clar._ Who is that? Lady _Ara._ Even my dear Lady _Headpiece_. _Clar._ Is she come? Lady _Ara._ Yes, her sort of a tolerable husband has gotten to be chosen parliament-man at some simple town or other, upon which she has persuaded him to bring her and her folks up to _London_. _Clar._ That's good; I think she was never here before. Lady _Ara._ Not since she was nine years old; but she has had an outrageous mind to it ever since she was marry'd. _Clar._ Then she'll make the most of it, I suppose, now she is come. Lady _Ara._ Depend upon that. _Clar._ We must go and visit her. Lady _Ara._ By all means; and may be you'll have a mind to offer her your tolerable scheme for her _London_ diversion this winter; if you do, mistress, I'll shew her mine too, and you'll see she'll so despise you and adore me, that if I do but chirrup to her, she'll hop after me like a tame sparrow, the town round. But there's your admirer I see coming in, I'll oblige him and leave you to receive part of his visit, while I step up to write a letter. Besides, to tell you the truth, I don't like him half so well as I used to do; he falls off of late from being the company he was, in our way. In short, I think he's growing to be a little like my lord. [_Exit._ _Enter Sir ~Charles~._ Sir _Charles_. Madam, your servant; they told me Lady _Arabella_ was here. _Clar._ She's only stept up to write a letter, she'll come down presently. Sir _Charles_. Why, does she write letters? I thought she had never time for't: pray how may she have dispos'd of the rest of the day? _Clar._ A good deal as usual; she has visits to make 'till six; she's then engag'd to the play, from that 'till court-time, she's to be at cards at Mrs. _Idle_'s; after the drawing-room, she takes a short supper with Lady _Hazard_, and from thence they go together to the assembly. Sir _Charles_. And are you to do all this with her? _Clar._ The visits and the play, no more. Sir _Charles_. And how can you forbear all the rest? _Clar._ 'Tis easy to forbear, what we are not very fond of. Sir _Charles_. I han't found it so. I have past much of my life in this hurry of the ladies, yet was never so pleas'd as when I was at quiet without 'em. _Clar._ What then induc'd you to be with 'em? Sir _Charles_. Idleness and the fashion. _Clar._ No mistresses in the case?