![]() ![]() You wonder how F.’s latest love affair is going on, and try to remember the exact wording of that brilliant repartee of his which made you laugh. He was as caustic as usual, and no less truculent: he is disgruntled because he thinks his merits have not been adequately recognised success would soften him, but perhaps his wit would be less delectable if it lost its sting. ![]() Your friend justly retorts that if we were all as austere, conversation would perish. You defend one of them by saying that he is very shy, and the other by saying that it is a matter of principle with him he will not speak unless he has something to say worth saying. It had never occurred to them that, when you go to a party, it is your duty to do what you can to make it go. has a tiresome habit of interrupting with an irrelevant remark just as someone is reaching the point of a good story, and so killing it it was amusing to see A., indefatigably loquacious, take not the smallest notice and go on talking as though B. ![]() After you have given a party, especially if your guests were of unusual distinction, when you have sped the last one on his way and you return to the sitting-room, it is only natural, human nature being what it is, that you and your wife, if you have one, the friend who lives with you, if you haven’t, should discuss them over a final drink before going to bed. ![]()
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