"It bears your initials, you see.

It was conceived and executed since you arrived--rather, I should say, since it was known that you would honor us with your company.

The greatest difficulty encountered was to find out what your initials were." "And I suppose," mischievously added the young girl to her acknowledgments, "that the same fertile mind which conceived the design eventually provided the initials ?" "That is our secret," responded Somers, with affected gravity.
The wines were of characteristic expensiveness, and provoked the same general comment.

Rushbrook seldom drank wine; Somers had selected it.

But the barbaric opulence of the entertainment culminated in the Californian fruits, piled in pyramids on silver dishes, gorgeous and unreal in their size and painted beauty, and the two Divas smiled over a basket of grapes and peaches as outrageous in dimensions and glaring color as any pasteboard banquet at which they had professionally assisted.