s. d. 4 Glasses of Rum and Water 2 0 3 Screws and a Pipe 0 3 2 Teas, with Shrimps 2 6 A small Glass of White Wine Negus, and Biscuits 1 0 1 Bottle of Lemonade 0 3 Ditto Soda with Brandy 0 9 3 Cheroots 0 6 -------- 7 3 By Cash 5 0 -------- By Parasol 2 3 -------- Then Edward kept remarking upon the different items, saying that it was very easy to see what was for Mr. Ned Twist, and what was for the lady--whoever it might be that accompanied him. And really and truly, if it was his dear mother-in-law, and she had been foolish enough to go falling in love with any of those good-looking dogs at the barracks, he didn’t see that there was any necessity for concealing her passion; for if the man were respectable, why, he should be very happy to see him, and question him as to whether his intentions were honourable towards her. It would have done any one’s heart as much good as it did mine to see how angry this made the poor bilious old lady, who, all the time that Edward was teasing her, was biting her lips, and shaking her leg up and down with downright passion, while she pretended to be very busy reading a book--(I never saw such reading)--until at last her nasty bile got the better of her, and would not allow her to stand a joke; for, declaring that she would leave the house the very next day, she bounced out of the room, slamming the door after her as hard as she could, till she made all the glasses on the sideboard jingle again, and up she went sulking to her room, where she stopped, and wouldn’t come down to dinner, nor allow us to send any up to her--as if she thought that would hurt us--a stupid old toad! All this, I said to myself, comes of having people in the house who must go getting angry over a mere joke. I told Edward that, as she had declared she would go on the morrow, and Susan told me that she really was packing up her things in real earnest, he might as well go up and tell her that he had only meant what he said in fun, and get her to come down to tea; or else, perhaps, what with her passion, and starving herself, she might be laid up before she left our house with a bilious fever. But he wouldn’t think of doing anything half so rash, he said, adding, that it would be quite time enough to apologize as soon as she should be dressed ready to go on the morrow.