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SCENE -- MRS. CHIPPERFIELD'S _Drawing-room_. _It is after the Christmas dinner, and the Gentlemen have not yet appeared._ MRS. C. _is laboriously attempting to be gracious to her Brother's Fiancee, whose acquaintance she has made for the first time, and with whom she is disappointed_. _Married Sisters and Maiden Aunts confer in corners with a sleepy acidity._
FIRST MARRIED SISTER (_to Second_). I felt quite sorry for Fred, to see him sitting there, looking -- and no wonder -- so ashamed of himself -- but I always will say, and I always _must_ say, Caroline, that if you and Robert had been _firmer_ with him when he was younger, he would never have turned out so badly! Now, there's my George -- &c., &c.