The incidents were too well known andtoo notorious in his old home for fiction. The housemaid, forbidden the place for five months, has been there & tidied it up & scoured it clean & made it repellent & awful. There was aconstant procession of callers of every kind. Certainly, if he could know, he would not wish thisdedication of his own home to be a lugubrious, smileless occasion.
When he turned atlast and inquired the time we were all amazed that two hours and more hadslipped away. I was astonished. like them before; I shall see nothing approaching them again!Sir Thomas Lipton and Bram Stoker, o Doubleday said: Why, you haven't executed the lease yet.
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