Snookson. “Yes; Hastings is a charming place, and has quite a peculiar—a—and half-melancholy interest for me. We came over with the Conqueror, you know!”
Fair Bostonian (late from Paris). “Ah, that must have been very trying! We came over with the Calais-Douvres.”
[S. tries not to look foolish.
ANNALS OF A RETIRED SUBURB
Mrs. Boultby Smith and her daughters have been “at home” to their London friends every Wednesday afternoon for the last seven years. Last Wednesday some visitors actually came!