Excerpt from The Man in the Corner
She was a personality, was Miss Burton of the Evening Observer. Her cards were printed thus:
Miss Mary J. Burton
Evening Observer.
She had interviewed Miss Ellen Terry and the Bishop of Madagascar, Mr. Seymour Hicks and the Chief Commissioner of Police. She had been present at the last Marlborough House garden party - in the cloak-room, that is to say, where she caught sight of Lady Thingummy's hat, Miss What-you-may-call's sunshade, and of various other things modistical or fashionable, all of which were duly described under the heading "Royalty and Dress" in the early afternoon edition of the Evening Observer.
(The article itself is signed M. J. B., and is to be found in the files of that leading halfpennyworth.)
For these reasons - and for various others, too - Polly felt irate with the man in the corner, and told him so with her eyes, as plainly as any pair of brown eyes can speak.
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