text: ' I also remember being one day in Hyde Park when a gentleman rode up to one of these loungers and after exchanging salutations the former said to the latter I wish much to have the pleasure of seeing you--are you engaged next Wednesday? Upon which the other turned round to a little half starved groom and said 'John am I engaged next Wednesday?' "The women of fashion " observes this writer "are just as great and as insipid idlers in their way as are the male triflers