By the time the Toy had got as far as this exclamation, Husseim blush’d to fret for a woman who was so unworthy, and fell a laughing with the rest of the company; but he kept something in reserve for his spouse. The entertainment being over, everyone went home directly, except Husseim, who conducted his wife into a house of veiled maidens, and there shut her up. Mangogul being inform’d of her disgrace paid her a visit. He found the whole community busy in comforting her, but still more in trying to get the secret of her exile from her. “ ’Tis for a mere trifle,” said she, “that I am here. Being last night at supper with the Sultan, the Champagne was whip’d about, the Tokay gallop’d, people hardly knew what they said, when my Toy must needs fall to prating. I do not remember on what subject it talk’d, but it made my husband take dudgeon.”