Sandys, Sandys, Sandys! where had the ladies heard that name before?
Society woke up, Sandys was again its hero; the traveller had to go lecturing in the provinces.
The ladies! Yes, and their friends, the men.

There was a Tommy society in Mayfair that winter, nearly all of the members eminent or beautiful, and they held each other's hands.

Both sexes were eligible, married or single, and the one rule was something about sympathy.

It afterwards became the Souls, but those in the know still call them the Tommies.
They blackballed Mrs.Jerry (she was rather plump), but her married stepdaughter, Lady Pippinworth (who had been a Miss Ridge-Fulton), was one of them.

Indeed, the Ridge-Fultons are among the thinnest families in the country.
T.Sandys was invited to join the society, but declined, and thus never quite knew what they did, nor can any outsider know, there being a regulation among the Tommies against telling.