“Oh, that is because you have never known what it meant not to have wisdom,” he retorted. “Tell me about everybody,” he went on. “Your husband, he is well, of course, and distressfully rich. I heard of him in New York. And Page, our little, solemn Minerva of Dresden china?”

“Oh, yes, Page is well, but you will hardly recognise her; such a young lady nowadays.”

“And Mr. Court, Landry? I remember he always impressed me as though he had just had his hair cut; and the Cresslers, and Mrs. Wessels, and⁠—”

“All well. Mrs. Cressler will be delighted to hear you are back. Yes, everybody is well.”