“Then I wanted time to get these things in proper course. Well, come now, I did get you the invitation to Lady Littletown’s.”
“Yes; to a beggarly dinner with an old woman at Hampton. Are you going to dine there?”
“I? No! I come in afterwards at the ‘at home’.”
“Ah! I wanted to talk to you about that affair to-night. You promised without my consent.”
“Of course I did. It was a great chance.”
“A great chance?”
“Of course. You don’t know how big a thing it is to be.”
“Bah! stuff! rubbish! A feed given to all the old pensioned tabbies at Hampton Court.”
“Don’t you make any mistake, sir. There’ll be some big people there.”
“Big! Why, I could buy up dozens of them.”