Who is your tailor, Adrian ?" He gave the address.

"The best in London.

And if you go to him on my introduction--Good Lord!"-- it seemed to amuse him vastly--"I can order half-a-dozen more!" All this seemed to me, who am not devoid of a sense of humour and an appreciation of the pleasant flippancies of life, somewhat futile and frothy talk, unworthy of the author of "The Diamond Gate" and the lover of Doria Jornicroft.

I expressed this opinion and Barbara, for once, agreed with me.
"Yes.

Let us be serious.