The dinners were a beastly bore, which proves that they were a loud success.

Your work was not done in vain.

But now I want something else.

We must push along the ball we've been talking of.
And the yachting cruise--that can't wait very much longer." "The ball first," she decreed.

"I'll see to the cards at once, and in a day or two I'll have a list ready for your gracious approval.