]Wouldn't a gentleman have cut off all connection with such a scoundrel? Shouldn't he have warned to Forsters?

I always think ill of Denny as well as Mrs. F, she is also wicked and she should be wickham's wife. Her behaviour with Lydia is not at all agreeable, even if she is young, a married woman from a decent man in the position of Mr. or Col. Foster should behave her self more, and not to have a teenager like Lydia as her best friend. I don't think their marriage will last long anyway.

Lydia:-"Dear me! we had such a good piece of fun the other day at Colonel Forster's. Kitty and me were to spend the day there, and Mrs. Forster promised to have a little dance in the evening (by the bye, Mrs. Forster and me are such friends!); and so she asked the two Harringtons to come, but Harriet was ill, and so Pen was forced to come by herself; and then, what do you think we did? We dressed up Chamberlayne in woman's clothes on purpose to pass for a lady -- only think what fun! Not a soul knew of it, but Colonel and Mrs. Forster, and Kitty and me, except my aunt, for we were forced to borrow one of her gowns; and you cannot imagine how well he looked! When Denny, and Wickham, and Pratt, and two or three more of the men came in, they did not know him in the least. Lord! how I laughed! and so did Mrs. Forster. I thought I should have died. And that made the men suspect something, and then they soon found out what was the matter."