"ENTERTAINMENT."
["People of this high class (Royal Highnesses, &c.) are said to 'entertain' visitors, but that is an inversion of the actual fact; their object is to be entertained. And quite right too. Nothing can surely be more delightful than to have one's house full of friends at will, and then be able to turn them out at a moment's notice (as a life-boat gets rid of superfluous water) by that simple mechanism of a Chamberlain. When the Social System attains its acmé, all of us will have a Chamberlain and be entertained."—JAMES PAYN.]
Host (concerning Guest):—
The twenty-first day, and no signs of a budge!—
And it isn't for want of "suggestion."
I begin to suspect Hospitality's fudge,
Meaning—mutually ruined digestion!
He is such a bore, and his wife is so fat,
And as fond of her bed as a dormouse.