A guest should always ascertain what are the usual hours of rising, taking meals, and retiring, and then conform scrupulously to them.
Guests should give as little trouble as possible, and never apologize for the extra trouble their visit necessarily occasions.
If a ride, drive, or walk is proposed by one of the family entertaining, a guest should acquiesce as far as her strength will allow, and do all in her power to seem pleased by the efforts made for her entertainment.
Upon taking one’s departure, it is expected—and reasonably, too—that some acknowledgment be made of the pleasure that has been afforded one.
It is also proper upon returning home to inform the friends just left of one’s safe arrival.
CHAPTER II.
Notes of Invitation, Announcement
Cards, Wedding Invitations, Acceptances
and Regrets, Letters,
Letters of
Introduction.
“Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly, but by the inconvenience of its loss.”—Samuel Johnson.