It is lucky I got up a regular stock of china, and so on, in anticipation of your coming.
Of course, as a bachelor, I have not been a dinner giver, except on occasions like this, when nobody expects anything like state, and things are conducted to a certain extent in picnic fashion.

I have paid off my dinner obligations by having men to mess or the club.

However, I will consult Rumzan, and we will have a regular parade of our materials, and you shall inspect our resources.

If there is anything in the way of flower vases or center dishes, or anything of that sort, you think requisite, we must get them.

Jestonjee has got a good stock of all that sort of thing.