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The scene is Wilfrid Bertram's rooms in Piccadilly, facing the Green Park. The time is six o'clock in the afternoon. The audience is a goodly number of men and women of that class which calls itself Society. The rooms are small and the guests are many. A few look contemptuously amused. A great many appear excruciatingly bored.
"It's all rot! " says one gentleman in confidence to his walking-stick.