jokes he wanted to tell he listened to the others he started off with a let s hear about your trip to the he was extremely he found opportunities to remark that dr was a benefactor to humanity and profound scholars charles an inspiration to ambitious youth and mrs an to the social circles of washington new york paris and numbers of other places but he could not stir them it was a dinner without a soul for no reason that was clear to was over them and they spoke laboriously and unwillingly he concentrated on carefully not looking at her lovely shoulder and the silken band which supported her frock suppose be going to europe pretty soon again won t you he invited i d like awfully to run over to rome for a few weeks i suppose you see a lot of pictures and music and and everything there no what i really go for is there s a little on the where you get the best in the world oh i� yes that must be nice to try that yes at a quarter to ten discovered with profound regret that his wife had a headache he said as helped him with his coat we must lunch together some time and talk over the old days when the others had labored out at half past ten turned to his wife pleading said he had a time and we must lunch � said they wanted to have us up to the house for dinner before long she achieved oh it s just been one of those quiet evenings that are often so much more than noisy parties where everybody talks at once and doesn t really settle down to � nice quiet enjoyment � but from his cot on the sleeping porch he heard her weeping slowly without hope iv for a month they watched the social columns and waited for a return dinner invitation as the hosts of sir the were all the week after the dinner ith received sir who had come to america to buy coal the new him on ireland naval the rate of exchange tea drinking drinking the of american women and daily life as lived by english county families sir seemed to have heard of all those topics the gave him a dinner and miss pearl society editor of the advocate times rose to her highest read aloud at breakfast table the original and oriental the strange and delicious food and the both of the distinguished guests the charming hostess and the noted host never has seen a more affair than the dinner dance given last evening by mr and mrs charles to sir as we � fortunate one � were privileged to view that fairy and foreign scene nothing at or the sets of foreign could be more lovely it is not for nothing that is in matters social rapidly becoming known as the inland city in the country though he is too modest to admit it lord gives a to our smart such as it has not received since the ever memorable visit of the earl of not only is he of the british but he is also on a leader of the british metal as he comes from a favorite haunt of robin hood though now we are informed by lord a live modem of inhabitants and important lace as well as other we like to think that perhaps through his veins runs some of the blood both red and blue of that earlier lord o the good the robin the lovely mrs never was more fascinating than last evening in her black net gown relieved by dainty bands of silver and at her exquisite waist a glowing cluster of ward roses said bravely hope they don t invite us to meet this lord sight rather just have a nice quiet little dinner with and the at the club they discussed it amply i s pose well have to call from now on said it beats all get out meditated that man of k w hard it is for some people to get things straight here th r call this fellow lord en it ought to be sir is that a fact i sir eh that s what you call eh well sir i m glad to know that later he informed his it s n a goat the way some folks that just because they happen to lay up a big go entertaining famous foreigners don t have any more idea n a rabbit how to address em so s to make em fed at that evening as he was driving home he passed s and saw sir a large ruddy pop ed englishman whose of yellow gave him an aspect sad and doubtful drove on slowly oppressed by he had a sudden and horrible conviction that the were at him he betrayed his depression by the violence with which he informed his wife that really tend to haven t got the time to waste on a bunch like the this society stuff is like any other if you devote yourself to it you get on but i like to have a chance to visit with you and the children instead of all this chasing round th did not speak of the again it was a shame at this worried time to have to think about the ed was a of who had been a failure he had a large family and a feeble business out in the of he was gray and thin and unimportant he had always been gray and thin and unimportant he was the person whom in any group you forgot to introduce then introduced with extra enthusiasm he had admired s good fellowship in college had admired ever since his power in real estate his beautiful house and wonderful clothes it pleased though it him with a sense of responsibility at the class dinner 