Of course you know a great many of these people ?" "Oh, a few.

I had rather meet them anywhere than in such a crowd, though." "Wonderful, isn't it ?" murmured Dymchurch, with a comical distress in his eyebrows.

"Wonderful!" Good-naturedly nodding, he moved away, and was lost to sight.

Dyce, holding his place near the entrance, perceived at length another face that he knew--that of a lady with whom he had recently dined at this house; in her company came Constance Bride and May Tomalin.

He all but bounded to meet them.