The prudent Vishnu, pretending to be awaking out of his first sleep, so bungled and delayed opening the front door, that we were tolerably presentable by the time the Colonel made his appearance, and whatever his suspicions may have been, he went through the formality of introduction in the most friendly way possible, the presence of so many young ladies evidently quite disconcerting him for the moment.
I afterwards learnt from his wife that under promise of secrecy she had confessed all to him, and vastly amused her husband by an account of our doings; but, at any rate, it stopped our fun at the time, and next day I was obliged to return to town, and thus brought to conclusion 'My Sport amongst the She-Noodles,' anything but 'Noodles' after I had so enlightened them, in fact quite as knowing as Adam and Eve after they found out they were 'Naked,' having tasted the 'Tree of Knowledge,' which, in my humble opinion, meant found out 'L'Arte de faire l'amour.'
