[_Reading the address._] It's re-addressed from the Junior Amalgamated Club, St. James's Street. [_Snatching the letter from Tyler._] Gracious! "The Honourable Vere Queckett!" GWENDOLINE. The Honourable! ERMYNTRUDE. The Honourable! TYLER. What's that mean? PEGGY. Young ladies, we have been entertaining a swell--unawares! [_Returning letter to Tyler._] Take it up. TYLER. Swell or no swell, the person who siles two pairs of boots _per diem_ daily is no friend o' mine. [_Tyler goes out._] PEGGY. [_Opening her letter._] Oh! From Dinah's Reginald! No, no! DINAH. Addressed to me. [_Referring to the signature._] PEGGY. "Reginald Percy Paulover!" DINAH. Read it, read it! [_Peggy sits on the sofa, the three girls clustering round her; Dinah kneeling at her feet expectantly._] PEGGY. [_Reading._] "Montpelier Square, West Brompton. Dear Miss Hesslerigge, Heaven will reward you. The letter wrapped round a stone which you threw me last night from an upper window of Volumnia House was handed to me after I had compensated the person upon whose head it unfortunately alighted. The news that Dinah has one friend in Volumnia House enabled me to get a little rest between half-past five and six this morning." GWENDOLINE. _One_ friend! ERMYNTRUDE. _What about us?_ [_Dinah kisses them._] DINAH. Go on! PEGGY. [_Reading._] "Not having closed my eyes for eleven nights, sleep was of distinct value. Now, dear Miss Hesslerigge, inform Dinah that our apartments are quite ready"-- GWENDOLINE AND ERMYNTRUDE. Oh! PEGGY. "And that I shall present myself at Volumnia College, to fetch away the dear love of my heart, to-night at half-past nine." To-night! GWENDOLINE AND ERMYNTRUDE. To-night! DINAH. Oh, I've come over so frightened! PEGGY. To-night! [_Waving the letter and dancing round with delight._] GWENDOLINE. Finish the letter. PEGGY. [_Resuming her seat, and reading with emotion._] "Please assure Dinah that I shall love her till death, and that the piano is now moving in. Dinah is my one thought. The former is on the three years' system. Kiss my angel for me. Our carpet is Axminster, and, I regret to say, second-hand. But, oh! our life will be a blessed, blessed dream--the worn part going well under the centre table. This evening at half-past nine. Gratefully yours, Reginald Percy Paulover. P.S.--I shall be closely muffled up, as the corner lamp-post under which I stand is visible from the window of Admiral Rank-ling's dining-room. You will know me by my faithful, trusty respirator." Oh! I'm so excited! I wish somebody was coming for me! ERMYNTRUDE. I know--we shall be frustrated by Jane! GWENDOLINE. Or Tyler! Leave them to me PEGGY. --I'll manage 'em! DINAH. But there's Miss Dyott's husband! PEGGY.