[ She gestures her agreement, and taps the fork lightly on her lower lip. ]
We shall ask the Ladies if they should like to present something, and make a little programme? If you print them, I shall illustrate them.
If they should like to they may, and then you shall play, and I shall play, and we shall have him play whatever he should like to play for us, and once we have embarrassed him entirely with our effusive praise, we shall all play something sprightly together. Then out to dinner to join one or two others you think meet there, and back afterwards to only ourselves for a nightcap?
[ The tilt of Alexandrie's head suggests that whom, precisely, "only ourselves" means is a separate question. ]
no subject
[ She gestures her agreement, and taps the fork lightly on her lower lip. ]
We shall ask the Ladies if they should like to present something, and make a little programme? If you print them, I shall illustrate them.
If they should like to they may, and then you shall play, and I shall play, and we shall have him play whatever he should like to play for us, and once we have embarrassed him entirely with our effusive praise, we shall all play something sprightly together. Then out to dinner to join one or two others you think meet there, and back afterwards to only ourselves for a nightcap?
[ The tilt of Alexandrie's head suggests that whom, precisely, "only ourselves" means is a separate question. ]