“Your affectionate sister,

“Winifred Dartie.

“Montague believes the dinner at the Crown and Sceptre to be quite eatable.”

Montague was Dartie’s second and better known name⁠—his first being Moses; for he was nothing if not a man of the world.

Her plan met with more opposition from Providence than so benevolent a scheme deserved. In the first place young Flippard wrote:

“Dear

Mrs.

Dartie,

“Awfully sorry. Engaged two deep.

“Yours,

“Augustus Flippard.”

“Dear Mrs. Dartie,

“Awfully sorry. Engaged two deep.