"I suppose you don't know many people here, Mr. Errington?" said Mrs. Machyn-Stubbs, seeing that Algernon was standing silent in the shadow of her husband.
"Not any. You know I have never been in London before."
"Haven't you, really? But perhaps we may have some mutual acquaintances notwithstanding. Let me see who is here!" said the lady, looking round her rooms.
"Are you acquainted with the Dormers, Mrs. Machyn-Stubbs?"
"The Dormers? Let me see——"
"General and Lady Harriet Dormer."
"Oh! no; I don't think I am. Of course I must have met them. In the course of the season, sooner or later, one meets everybody."
"Do you know Miss Kilfinane?"
"Miss Kilfinane? I—I can't recall at this moment——"
"She is a sort of connection of mine; not a relation, for she is Lord Seely's niece, not my lady's."