"How very absurd!" he said, with a superb compassion for the benighted Americans.

By this time, I suspect he began to feel that he had had enough of me.

He got rid of me with an invitation.
"I shall be glad to receive you at my private residence, and introduce you to my wife and her niece--our adopted daughter.

There is the address.

We have a few friends to dinner on Saturday next, at seven.
Will you give us the pleasure of your company ?" We are all aware that there is a distinction between civility and cordiality; but I myself never knew how wide that distinction might be, until Mr.Farnaby invited me to dinner.