Sir Walter and Elizabeth love, love, love Bath! But, poor Sir Walter - it seems to have an inordinate number of ugly women in it.

"He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty, frights; and once, as he had stood in the shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them." (ch 15)