Mintra monologue (Act 2) — Hearts and clubs : $b A comedy in three acts

You know there is a club organized here, just to fill up this stupid season, and you know how dull it is for me when you are not here, for I cannot write to you every hour in the day. Well, at first I wasn’t a bit interested, but I really am now. You see I had never thought of narrow chests, or little bits of waists being so very injurious. I thought it was just a fad of old people, like Auntie; but when I heard Miss Stein talk--you know she has come down to give us lessons--I was converted at once, it all seemed so sensible. And so I have joined the club for Physical Culture, and--