Probably down town by this time." They turned back and went in.

The Duke asked for the ladies.

The Countess and her companion had gone to drive in the park, but Lady Victoria was upstairs.
"Vick, I am going to have a man to dinner--of course we will all dine together the first night ashore--a man you have heard me speak of; you will like him amazingly." "Who is he ?" "He is the uncle of the whole human race." "Including the peerage ?" laughed Lady Victoria.
"Peerage?
I should think so.

The whole of Debrett and the _Almanach de Gotha_.

Nobility and gentry, the Emperor of China and the North American Indians." "That will suit Miss Skeat.