Do not hate me for this lecture.

Really I am not surprised at your having some headache after Thursday evening, for it must have been no small exertion making an abstract of all that was said after dinner.

Your being so engaged was a bore, for there were several things that I should have liked to have talked over with you.

It was certainly a first-rate dinner, and I enjoyed it extremely, far more than I expected.

Very far from disagreeing with me, my London visits have just lately taken to suit my stomach admirably; I begin to think that dissipation, high-living, with lots of claret, is what I want, and what I had during the last visit.