Once only I ventured alone into the Authors' Club Saturday meeting, and none of my own friends happened to be there.

Evidently I was not known.

Mr.Higginson saw the situation at once, and coming quickly to me escorted me to a comfortable seat.

He ordered two cups of tea with wafers, and beckoned to some delightful men and women to whom he introduced me as his friend Miss Sanborn, thus putting me at my ease.

He was also ever patient about my monomania of trying to prove that women possess both wit and humour.