ernoon hours. This is now thoroughly understood
and accepted in general society. When, however, a bachelor has his way
to make in society and has leisure to further the acquaintanceships he
has already made, he should follow the rules of card-leaving.

Bachelors, as a rule, are expected to leave cards on the master and
mistress of a house with whom they are acquainted as soon as they are
aware that the family have arrived in town; or if a bachelor himself has
been away, he should leave cards on his acquaintances immediately after
his return. He should leave one card for the mistress of the house and
one for its master.

A gentleman should not turn down a corner of his card, even though he
may be acquainted with other ladies of the family besides the mistress
of the house. A gentleman should not leave a card for the young
daughters of the house, or for any young relative of its mistress who
might be staying with her; but if a married couple with whom he is
acquainted were staying with the friends on whom he is calling, he
should leave two cards for them, one for the wife and one for the
husband, and should tell the servant for whom they are intended.

As regards leaving cards upon new acquaintances, a gentleman should not
leave his card upon a married lady, or the mistress of a house, to whom
he has been introduced, however gracious or agreeable she has been to
him, unless she expressly asks him to call, or gives him to understand
in an unmistakable manner that his doing so would be agreeable to her.
This rule holds good, whether the introduction has taken place at a
dinner-party, at a ball, at an "at home," at a country-house gathering,
or elsewhere; he would not be entitled to leave his card on her on such
slight acquaintanceship; as, if she desired his further acquaintance,
she would make some polite allusion to his calling at her house, in
which case he should leave his card on her as soon afterwards as
convenient, and he should also leave a card for the master of the house,
the lady's husband or father (as the case may be), even if he had not
made his acquaintance when making that of the lady.

A gentleman should not leave a card on a young lady to whom he has
been introduced, but upon her mother or the relative with whom she
is residing.

When the acquaintance existing between gentlemen is but slight, they
should occasionally leave cards upon each other, especially when they do
not move in the same circle, and