Invitations were showered upon them.

A man who is a prince and prefers to drop the title need not seek popularity in London.

The very respectable reader probably knows as well as his humble servant, the writer, that in London there is always a social circle just a little lower than one's own which opens its doors with noble, disinterested hospitality, and is prepared to lick the blacking from any famous foot.
These invitations Etta accepted eagerly.

Some women hold it little short of a crime to refuse an invitation, and go through life regretting that there is only one evening to each day.

To Paul these calls were nothing new.