Garden-parties are invaluable--for people you can't ask into the house.

By-the-way, wasn't it you, Oliver, who scolded me last night, because I said somebody wasn't 'in Society' ?" "You said it of a particular hero of mine," laughed Marsham.

"I naturally pitied Society." "What is Society?
Where is it ?" said Sir James Chide, contemptuously.

"I suppose Lady Palmerston knew." The famous lawyer sat a little apart from the rest.

Diana, who had only caught his name, and knew nothing else of him, looked with sudden interest at the man's great brow and haughty look.