This is perfectly thrilling.

Mr.Maraton, I am having a few friends come in to-morrow evening.

I should dearly love to give them a surprise.
Couldn't you just drop in for an hour?
Or, better still, if you could dine?
I have taken Lenchester House for a year.

My, it would be good to see their faces!" Maraton shook his head.
"Thank you very much, Mrs.Bollington-Watts," he said, "but my visit to England is one of business only.

To be frank with you, I have no social existence, nor any desire to cultivate one." "But you know Lady Elisabeth," the little woman protested.
"I have the honour of knowing Lady Elisabeth incidentally," Maraton replied.