[When William Came by Saki]@TWC D-Link bookWhen William Came CHAPTER V: L'ART D'ETRE COUSINE 6/9
Why, it's going to be one of the events of the season.
Everybody's talking about it.
She's going to do suggestion dancing at the Caravansery Theatre." "Good Heavens, what is suggestion dancing ?" asked Yeovil. "Oh, something quite new," explained Joan; "at any rate the name is quite new and Gorla is new as far as the public are concerned, and that is enough to establish the novelty of the thing.
Among other things she does a dance suggesting the life of a fern; I saw one of the rehearsals, and to me it would have equally well suggested the life of John Wesley. However, that is probably the fault of my imagination--I've either got too much or too little.
Anyhow it is an understood thing that she is to take London by storm." "When I last saw Gorla Mustelford," observed Yeovil, "she was a rather serious flapper who thought the world was in urgent need of regeneration and was not certain whether she would regenerate it or take up miniature painting.
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