"He behaved very handsomely, and said he had not presumed to consider me his mouthpiece; and then, too, I am so intimate with L'Estrange."
"Is that queer fellow ever coming back to England?"
"He comes, generally every year, for a few days, just to see his father and mother, and then goes back to the Continent."
"I never meet him."
"He comes in September or October, when you, of course, are not in town, and it is in town that the Lansmeres meet him."
"Why does not he go to them?"
"A man in England but once a year, and for a few days, has so much to do in London, I suppose."
"Is he as amusing as ever?"
Egerton nodded.
"So distinguished as he might be!" continued Lord Westbourne.