Is a great social bond in these strange days.
Rochefoucauld here might gather
Material for new maxims keen and cold.
They meet, these convives, if the truth be told,
For boredom and bland blather.
"Royston's Reception,—ah! yes; beastly bore!
But must drop in for half an hour, no more.
The usual cram,—one knows it.
Big pudding with a few peculiar "plums."
Everyone kicks, but everybody comes.