We have a Bacon club, which you shall join.

It is a most delightful club, and you will like it, I'm sure.

I fancy that in a few weeks I shall see you devouring Bacon with intense enjoyment." Indeed I won't, thought Patty.

She was about to say that her Uncle Robert belonged to a Terrapin Club, but refrained, thinking it might be impolite to imply disparagement to the more lowly bacon.
So she changed the subject, and said: "Please, Cousin Tom, tell me something of your family.

It's so queer to go to see people and not know anything about them beforehand.