The guests on the occasion were Lady Pennon.

Lady Singleby, Mr.Whitmonby, Mr.Percy Dacier, Mr.Tonans;--'Some other woman,' Sir Lukin said, and himself.
He reported the cookery as matching the conversation, and that was princely; the wines not less--an extraordinary fact to note of a woman.
But to hear Whitmonby and Diana Warwick! How he told a story, neat as a postman's knock, and she tipped it with a remark and ran to a second, drawing in Lady Pennon, and then Dacier, 'and me!' cried Sir Lukin; 'she made us all toss the ball from hand to hand, and all talk up to the mark; and none of us noticed that we all went together to the drawing-room, where we talked for another hour, and broke up fresher than we began.' 'That break between the men and the women after dinner was Tony's aversion, and I am glad she has instituted a change,' said Lady Dunstane.
She heard also from Redworth of the unexampled concert of the guests at Mrs.Warwick's dinner parties.

He had met on one occasion the Esquarts, the Pettigrews, Mr.Percy Dacier, and a Miss Paynham.

Redworth had not a word to say of the expensive household.

Whatever Mrs.Warwick did was evidently good to him.