The alteration in my gowns met with her entire approbation--I mean
the taking away of the plaits from round the waist--and my aunt
Dall pronounced it an immense improvement and wished you could see
it.
Lady Dacre and her daughter, Mrs. Sullivan, and Mr. James Wortley
were in the orchestra, and came after the play to supper with us,
as did Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Edward Romilly, and Mr.
Harness: a very pleasant party, for the ladies are all clever and
charming, and got on admirably together.
It is right, as you are a shareholder in that valuable property of
ours, Covent Garden, you should know that there was a very fine
house, though I cannot exactly tell you the amount of the receipts.
I miss you dreadfully, my dear H----, and I do wish you could come
back to us when Dorothy has left you; but I know that cannot be,
and so I look forward to the summer time, the sunny time, the rosy
time, when I shall be with you again at Ardgillan.
Yesterday, I read for the first time Joanna Baillie's "Count
Basil." I am not sure that the love she describes does not affect
me more even than Shakespeare's delineation of the passion in
"Romeo and Juliet.
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