His host pointed to the sideboard.
"Come," he continued, "there are cigars and cigarettes at your elbow, whisky and soda on the sideboard.

Make yourself at home in that chair there.

Africa has rally changed you very little.

Do you remember our previous meeting, in Saxony ?" "I remember it perfectly, your Excellency." "His Majesty knew how to keep Court in those days," the Ambassador went on.

"One was tempted to believe oneself at an English country party.
However, that much of the past.