Albert Kinross

“ Everybody had made definite arrangements save Lady Grasmere and Harvey.
Lady Horace was pained.
"You must come to us, dear—do!" she pleaded; "and Mr. Merceron must come as well—men are always so useful, are they not?" she asked, mischievously confusing Captain Mills with the awkward question.
"They do their best," said he.
"Aren't they ornamental as well?" asked Harvey.
"Only in fancy dress," declared Lady Horace, "and then——
She hesitated.
"And then?" pressed Captain Mills.
"And then it's their legs," she whispered.
The Marchioness coughed and mentioned Cowes. ”

“ Lady Horace comforted her.
"Siegfried is rather fun, though; everybody dresses just like the men in the Prehistoric Peeps," she said, alluding to a well-known series of Punch drawings. "And then there's a dragon that sings bass and pretends to get killed, and a bear and a bird—quite a pantomime. ”

“ CHAPTER XI. THEY OPEN WIDER.
"But the society named polite is volatile ... ideas cannot take foot in its ever-shifting soil. It is besides addicted in self-defence to gabble exclusively of the affairs of its rabidly revolving world, as children on a whirligoround bestow their attention on the wooden horse or cradle ahead of them, to escape from giddiness and preserve a notion of identity."
George Meredith, An Essay on Comedy.
"CAPTAIN MILLS," said Merceron, "you mistook me for Captain Mills last night?" ”