She remained in, and ended by inviting Keith to dinner that evening, an invitation which was so graciously seconded by Mr.Lancaster that Keith, finding that he could take a later train, accepted.

Mrs.Yorke was at the dinner, too, and how gracious she was to Keith! She "could scarcely believe he was the same man she had known a few years before." She "had heard a great deal of him, and had come around to dinner on purpose to meet him." This was true.
"And you have done so well, too, I hear.

Your friends are very pleased to know of your success," she said graciously.
Keith smilingly admitted that he had had, perhaps, better fortune than he deserved; but this Mrs.Yorke amiably would by no means allow.
"Mrs.Wentworth--not Louise--I mean the elder Mrs.Wentworth--was speaking of you.

You and Norman were great friends when you were boys, she tells me.

They were great friends of ours, you know, long before we met you." He wondered how much the Wentworths' indorsement counted for in securing Mrs.Yorke's invitation.