Chapter 12: Wet Days

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌⁠If cards are the devil's playthings, wet days are certainly his select playtime; and all the days before the Chinese Masquerade were very wet indeed. The Exquisite Mob returned from the Pump Room remarkably depressed in spirit. The forenoons passed away in the coffee-houses and the shops, but in the afternoons when it was wont to exercise itself and air its modes the stuffy parlours of Curtain Wel