  This is Eve congratulating her two dear friends—Miss Verry-Pretty and Miss Plain—on their engagements. She is expressing the usual frantic anxiety to meet the happy fiancÉs She meets them, and wonders again for the nth time why it is that the pretty girls are nearly always captured by the—well—ordinary-looking men, while those less favoured by Nature so often bag veritable Adonises Eve, burdened with the responsibilities of her unmarried sisters, Evelyn and Evelinda, is always endeavouring to get them suitably paired. She finds it very annoying that when she takes them out to dine with her very highly respectable cousin, the Countess of Crimp, they meet so many people like Mr. Snob, Captain Auction-Bridge, and Mr. Toady Whereas when she has tucked her little charges safely away in bed and flies out for a little relaxation to a naughty night club— —She meets Lord Knut, Reggie Hardcash, and all those very gilded and eligible young men who would lead Evelyn and Evelinda to the altar in so suitable—and golden—a fashion |
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