_Lady B._ (_bewildered_). What is this? Sir VEVEY, Lady VIOLET,--alive, well? This deputation of gratitude? Am I mad, dreaming--or what does it all mean? _Monks._ (_doggedly_). It means that the sight of this 'ere angel-child recalled me to a sense of what I might be exposin' myself to by carrying out your Ladyship's commands; and so I took the liberty of substitootin gifts more calculated to inspire gratitude in their recipients--that's what it means. _Lady B._ Wretch!--then you have disobeyed me? You leave this day month! _Elfie_ (_pleading_). Nay, Grandmother, bear with him, for has not his disobedience spared you from acts that you might some day have regretted?... There, Mr. Butler, Granny forgives you--see, she holds out her hand, and here's mine; and now---- _Lady B._ (_smiling tenderly_). Now you shall sing us "_Woa, Lucinda!_" [_Little_ ELFIE _fetches her banjo, and sings, "Woa, Lucinda!" her Grandmother and the aged Steward joining in the dance and chorus, and embracing the child, to form picture as Curtain falls._ * * * * * MODERN TYPES. (_By Mr. Punch's Own Type-writer._) No. II.--THE CORINTHIAN LADY. [Illustration:] The Corinthian Lady is the latest resultant of the two forces of _ennui_ and dissipation acting on a Society that is willing to spend money and desires to kill time. She has played many parts, some (of infinitesimal proportions), on the burlesque stage, others in the semi-private life of her own residence in the South-west district of London. Her versatility has gained for her many admirers and a precarious income, but so long as she possesses the former she scorns to live upon the latter. Being unquestionably a real lady, she has been elected an honorary member of a night club to which undoubted gentlemen resort. There she occasionally consents to dance; more often she sups to an accompaniment of Viennese music, loud and mirthless laughter, jests which are as fatuous as they are suggestive, and wine which, unlike the humour of the plated youths, her companions, is always sparkling and sometimes dry.