“They want to meet you so much,” he wrote to flatter me. “Mrs. So-and-so is a very cultivated woman and she’s read every word you’ve written.” Mrs. So-and-so would then tell me she’d so much enjoyed my book Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill and congratulate me on my play The Mollusc. The first of these was written by Hugh Walpole and the second by Hubert Henry Davies.
