The things we do!

Clive pursued his lugubrious talk through the Park, and continued it as
far as the modest-furnished house which we then occupied in the Pimlico
region. It so happened that the Colonel and Mrs. Clive also called upon
us that day, and found this culprit in Laura's drawing-room, when they
entered it, descending out of that splendid barouche in which we have
already shown Mrs. Clive to the public.
"He has not been here for months before; nor have you Rosa; nor have you,
Colonel; though we have smothered our indignation, and been to dine with
you, and to call, ever so many times!" cries Laura.
The Colonel pleaded his business engagements; Rosa, that little woman of
the world, had a thousand calls to make, and who knows how much to do?
since she came out. She had been to fetch papa, at Bays's, and the porter
had told the Colonel that Mr. Clive and Mr. Pendennis had just left the
club together.
"Clive scarcely ever drives with me," says Rosa; "papa almost always
does.


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