Also, I am to wear evening dress.

This is compulsory.

I never was so apparelled in my life.

I suppose I'll have to hire one somewhere.

But I'd do more than that to get a chance at the Philomaths." Of all places, the Club gathered that night at the Pertonwaithe house.
Extra chairs had been brought into the great drawing-room, and in all there must have been two hundred Philomaths that sat down to hear Ernest.