The Duke has got some craze of his own about decimal coinage.

He'll amuse himself with that; but it won't come to anything, and it won't hurt us." "Isn't the Duchess giving a great many parties ?" asked Mrs.
Happerton.
"Well;--yes.

That kind of thing used to be done in old Lady Brock's time, and the Duchess is repeating it.

There's no end to their money, you know.

But it's rather a bore for the persons who have to go." The ministerial Roby knew well how he would make his sister-in-law's mouth water by such an allusion as this to the great privilege of entering the Prime Minister's mansion in Carlton Terrace.
"I suppose you in the Government are always asked." "We are expected to go too, and are watched pretty close.