Then my mother, you know, has the knack of getting interesting people together.

The Bishop is coming, amongst others.

And, Furley, I wanted to ask you--do you know anything of a young woman--she is half Russian, I believe--who calls herself Miss Catherine Abbeway ?" "Yes, I know her," was the brief rejoinder.
"She lived in Russia for some years, it seems," Julian continued.

"Her mother was Russian--a great writer on social subjects." Furley nodded.
"Miss Abbeway is rather that way herself," he remarked.

"I've heard her lecture in the East End.