77/108 Every one of 'em asked the same question, "Who met them at the station ?" That's the chief thing they wished to know. When I said "I did"-- that fixed the whole thing on the highest peg of dignity. They could classify the whole proceeding properly, and they went off happy. Again: You've got to go in to dinner in the exact order prescribed by the constitution; and, if you avoid that or confuse that, you'll never be able to live it down. And so about Government, Literature, Art--everything. |