Lord Mersey in the chair--in a red robe.

These gay old dogs have had a fine time of it for nearly 200 years--good wine, high food, fine satisfaction.

The oldest dining society in the Kingdom.

The blue blood old Briton has the art of enjoying himself reduced to a very fine point indeed." Another gathering whose meetings he seldom missed was that of the Kinsmen, an informal club of literary men who met occasionally for food and converse in the Trocadero Restaurant.

Here Page would meet such congenial souls as Sir James Barrie and Sir Arthur Pinero, all of whom retain lively memories of Page at these gatherings.