This title suggests an amusing _tableau vivant_ for an evening at home.
Two girls should withdraw and put over their pretty dresses
queer-looking old shawls, and cover their curls with odd-looking
bonnets tied under the chin.
They should sit very close together, and with cups of tea in their
hands gaze intently at each other, busily stirring the while. They must
nod their heads as though one were telling a bit of scandal.
Suddenly one exclaims in a high-pitched voice, “You don’t say so!”
whereupon the hostess should inquire, “Who can tell what these girls
represent?”
A number of the company will naturally reply, “Gossip.”