The things we do!

The Colonel comes to Park Street early in the forenoon, when the mistress
of the house, surrounded by her little ones, is administering dinner to
them. He behaves with splendid courtesy to Miss Quigley, the governess,
and makes a point of taking wine with her, and of making a most profound
bow during that ceremony. Miss Quigley cannot help thinking Colonel
Newcome's bow very fine. She has an idea that his late Majesty must have
bowed in that way: she flutteringly imparts this opinion to Lady Anne's
maid; who tells her mistress, who tells Miss Ethel, who watches the
Colonel the next time he takes wine with Miss Quigley, and they laugh,
and then Ethel tells him; so that the gentleman and the governess have to
blush ever after when they drink wine together. When she is walking with
her little charges in the Park, or in that before-mentioned paradise nigh
to Apsley House, faint signals of welcome appear on her wan cheeks. She
knows the dear Colonel amongst a thousand horsemen.


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