Let me make you acquainted with your opposite neighbour, Miss Elizabeth Dalstan.

I dare say, even if you haven't been in the States, you know some of our principal actresses by name." Philip raised his head and caught a glimpse of a rather pale face, a mass of deep brown hair, a pleasant smile from a very shapely mouth, and the rather intense regard of a pair of wonderfully soft eyes, whose colour at that moment he was not able to determine.
"I have had the pleasure of seeing Miss Dalstan on the stage," he observed.
"Capital!" Mr.Raymond Greene exclaimed.

"We haven't met before, have we, Mr.Romilly?
Something kind of familiar in your face.

You are not by way of being in the Profession, are you ?" Romilly shook his head.
"I am a manufacturer," he acknowledged.
"That so ?" his neighbour remarked, a trifle surprised.

"Queer! I had a fancy that we'd met, and quite lately, too.