Eight in the Evening
`` Do what you will with the woman , when the time comes the woman will be here . '' 1 . _ From Mrs. Oldershaw -LRB- Diana Street , Pimlico -RRB- to Miss Gwilt -LRB- West Place , Old Brompton -RRB- _ . `` Ladies ' Toilet Repository , June 20th , `` Eight in the Evening . `` MY DEAR LYDIA -- About three hours have passed , as well as I can remember , since I pushed you unceremoniously inside my house in West Place , and , merely telling you to wait till you saw me again , banged the door to between us , and left you alone in the hall . I know your sensitive nature , my dear , and I am afraid you have made up your mind by this time that never yet was a guest treated so abominably by her hostess as I have treated you . `` The delay that has prevented me from explaining my strange conduct is , believe me , a delay for which I am not to blame .