I have the chance, now, to go out a good deal and to meet
influential, worth-while people. In the circumstances I ask you not to
bant. One rather spare man in a pair of men is enough.
"My hostess, a Mrs. Phillips, I met at a tea during my first week. This tea
was given by a lady in the mathematical department, and she and her husband
were at the dinner. They are people in the early or middle thirties, I
judge, and were probably put in as a connecting link between the two
sections of the party. Mrs. Phillips herself is a rich widow of forty-odd--
forty-five or six, possibly,--though I am not the very best judge in such
matters: no need to tell you that, on such a point, my eye and my general
sense are none too acute. The only other middle-aged (or elderly) person
present was a Mr. Randolph, who is perhaps fifty, or a little beyond, yet
who appears to have his younger moments. There were some girls, and there
were two young men in business in the city--neighbors and not connected
with the University at all. 'For which relief,' etc.,--since it _is_ a
bit benumbing to move in academic circles exclusively;--I should hate to
feel that a really professorial manner was stealing over me.
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