16/18 A day is sufficient. He gives such wonderful parties. I do not know why we all like to come, but we do. I suppose that we all get half-a-dozen invitations to supper most nights, but there is not one of us who does not put off everything to sup with Mr.Selingman.He sits in the middle--oh, you shall watch him to-night!--and what he says I do not know, but we laugh, and then we laugh again, and every one is happy." "I think he is the most irresistible person," Norgate agreed. "I met him two or three nights ago, coming over from Berlin, and he spoke of nothing but crockery and politics. |