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But the maddening thing was, she had afterward to admit, that the disaster had been largely of her own contriving. She had been caught in the net of her own stratagem hoist by her own petard. She had made it a six-couple dinner in order to insure that the talk should be by twos rather than general, and she had spent a good half-hour over the place-cards, getting them to suit her.
Like a flash, she covered the letter; but I saw enough to help us out. The letter was addressed to Achenbach. I saw the word 'Wednesday." "That settles it; for Nancy Eckdahl was making out a menu in chapel yesterday, and the Middlers who take water-colors are painting place-cards." "What had best be done? I'd like to have them send on the banquet and lead the delivery men off somewhere else."
Every dinner-giver, however, knows the device of suitable quotations, or original sayings, or clever limericks, on place-cards, and the impetus they give to conversation between dinner-companions as the guests are seated. But the responsibility of host and hostess does not end when they thus furnish dinner-companions a conversational cue.
The major is coming! The first place he has gone this winter and he wants to sit between Phoebe and Caroline Darrah. I just ran over to tell you. Good-by! We must both dress." And Andrew smiled as he rearranged the place-cards. And it happened that in more ways than one David Kildare found himself the perturbed host.
"Oh, well," explained Tess, rather grandly, "at a swell function you don't have to have many substantial viands, you know." "Oh, I nearly forgot this is to be a swell function." "Yes, the real thing," said Tess proudly. "Potted palms and hand-painted place-cards and orchestra music and candle shades and everything!" "Candle shades? won't it be daylight at six o'clock?"
Babbitt fluttered, "Now, let me see Oh, I was going to have some nice hand-painted place-cards for you but Oh, let me see; Mr. Frink, you sit there." The dinner was in the best style of women's-magazine art, whereby the salad was served in hollowed apples, and everything but the invincible fried chicken resembled something else.
Thus it chanced that Jane found herself seated next to him, and, having arranged the place-cards herself, understood exactly how it came about.
"It's nice to stand up straight again, isn't it?" remarked Marjorie, as the whole party reached the less cramped quarters. "But that was a great idea, Captain!" "Wouldn't it make a jolly place to haze freshmen?" commented Ruth, who never grew tired of playing tricks. "Refreshments are ready!" announced the Captain. "Look for your place-cards."
There had been pink lights on the table, I remembered, and the place-cards at dinner the first night out had been caricatures of me in fighting trim. There had been a girl, too. For the three days of that week-end cruise I had been mad about her; before that first dinner, when I had known her two hours, I had kissed her hand and told her I loved her!
Anderson robbed her library of a huge green rug to place before the stationery booth over whose writing paper and green place-cards and novelties, all in green boxes, she presided robustly. Mrs.
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