“Say, listen, that’s not true! Mr.----, I certainly am glad to know you. How do you do, how do you do? You must come too, Mr.----. I have read your books. They are amazing, enchanting, universal. You are a genius. I tell the world so. I was telling the Duke of Mall and the Grand Duke Charles so only the other night. I said: ‘He is a genius.’ Now I want to tell you boys that to-morrow night I am throwing the finest party that has ever been dreamt of. It’s going to be just great. You boys have just got to come. I’ll tell the world that there’s nothing that’s not going to happen at that party. Muriel Surplice will be green. All her friends are coming. Everyone is coming. Say, listen, I have taken the whole Château de Madrid for the night and have changed it into a Venetian lagoon and at midnight I have engaged just the most complete circus to come and amuse us, as my point is, boys, that when one goes on a party one should just have everything from Mah Jongg to marmosets----” She went, at last. Dwight-Rankin said dreamily: “Have a spot of brandy?” I choked. “You dare!” I said. “You dare to sit there and talk to me about spots of brandy after having palmed off on me that abominable rigmarole----” “But it might have happened,” said Dwight-Rankin dreamily, waving a hand around the restaurant. “Perhaps it will happen. It certainly ought to happen. To all these charming people. Even lions will turn. However....” _The end of the book called May Fair, in which are told the last adventures of These Charming People._ Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: be impertient=> be impertinent {pg 207} he caught a crab=> he caught a cab {pg 276} those inexorable twin sister=> those inexorable twin sisters {pg 327} Then, after may æons=> Then, after many æons {pg 359}