Question. What is the chief object you wish to attain during the Vacation?
Answer. To have the best time possible under the most favourable conditions.
Q. Is the comfort of your relations and friends to be taken into serious account in attaining this desirable end?
A. Certainly not; the details to which you refer are unworthy of a moment's consideration.
Q. Have you any objection to upsetting all the household arrangements on your arrival?
A. Unquestionably no. If a morning performance commences at an hour early enough to require luncheon to be discussed at 12:30, why the déjeuner à la fourchette (as the French would say) must be partaken within half-an-hour of noon. In like manner, if an evening representation begins at seven, the dinner-hour must be put back to half-past five.
Q. If these alterations cause any disturbance of your father's habits, how would you deal with the matter?
A. I would not deal with the matter at all. I would leave all purely necessary explanations to my mother.
Q. During the time of your vacation will you approve of any dinner-parties?
A. I have a rooted objection to such entertainments when the guests are of my parents' selection. However, I have no objection to a few fellows, say, like Smith Major, or Brown Minor, dropping in to supper on a Sunday.