Therefore the Duke sent his Secretary quietly to ask the Ambassador's Secretary--before we accepted." This is now a common occurrence.

We had Sir Edward Grey to dinner a little while ago and we had to make sure we had no Tory guests that night.
This same Duchess of X sat in the Peeresses' gallery of the House of Lords to-night till 7 o'clock.

"I had to sit in plain sight of the wives of two members of the Cabinet and of the wife and daughter of the Prime Minister.

I used to know them," she said, "and it was embarrassing." Thus the revolution proceeds.

For that's what it is.
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