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Alsager's messenger let him know that he was expected to supper in Grosvenor Place, and half an hour afterwards he was seated there among complimentary people and flowers and popping corks, eating the first orderly meal he had partaken of for a week. Mrs. Alsager had carried him off in her brougham the other people who were coming got into things of their own.
Wayworth was approached at the same moment by a gentleman he knew as one of Mrs. Alsager's friends he had perceived him in that lady's box. Mrs. Alsager was waiting there for the successful author; she desired very earnestly that he would come round and speak to her.
She was a charming, exemplary person, educated, cultivated, with highly modern tastes, an excellent musician. It was quite an artistic home not on the scale of Mrs. Wayworth went so far as to hint that it would be rather nice and human on Mrs. Alsager's part to go there they would take it so kindly if she should call on them.
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