Well, we were all rather young when we really got started in the way of holding our meetings and becoming a society. Rather young and overexcited and a bit prone to enthusiasms that must have seemed a little out of place.

Things tended toward the loud, the over the top and the exciting with us around. Sometimes being exciting is not the best way to stay on the good side of a proprietress, even one who is very fond of you. We were so happy then, and so very stupid, and full of life. I miss those days, sometimes, more lately, but it would be wrong to have hoped for change and not attempt to embrace it.

And I've been going on about this for quite a while. Have you been present yourself, for many of the parties or goings on here? It seems as if your life at home was not entirely full of them if I can be bold enough to say that.