CHAPTER FOUR: The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs.Rasselyer-Brown.
Mrs.Rasselyer-Brown lived on Plutoria Avenue in a vast sandstone palace, in which she held those fashionable entertainments which have made the name of Rasselyer-Brown what it is.

Mr.Rasselyer-Brown lived there also.
The exterior of the house was more or less a model of the facade of an Italian palazzo of the sixteenth century.

If one questioned Mrs.
Rasselyer-Brown at dinner in regard to this (which was only a fair return for drinking five dollar champagne), she answered that the facade was _cinquecentisti_, but that it reproduced also the Saracenic mullioned window of the Siennese School.

But if the guest said later in the evening to Mr.Rasselyer-Brown that he understood that his house was _cinquecentisti_, he answered that he guessed it was.

After which remark and an interval of silence, Mr.Rasselyer-Brown would probably ask the guest if he was dry.
So from that one can tell exactly the sort of people the Rasselyer-Browns were.
In other words, Mr.Rasselyer-Brown was a severe handicap to Mrs.
Rasselyer-Brown.