Excerpt from The Street of to-Day
Lionel Heseltine sat at dinner between a sporting lady and a Dean's daughter. He talked to the sporting lady about the diseases of "toy Poms," gravely telling her to inject corrosive sublimate. To the Dean's daughter, who was as idle as the other, but less vivacious, he imparted the laws of Mendel in relation to the sweet-pea. He was not constantly employed in these ways. Sometimes both ladies were engaged with the men beyond them. At such times he surveyed the guests, gravely smiling, while his long, brown, clinical fingers rolled minute bread-pills under the table.
The dinner was a small one, for, though there were more than twenty people present, thirteen of them were members of the family. The host was his old chief, Sir Patrick Hamlin. The guests were mostly bright young persons of the kind beloved by the old, for their looks and gaiety. Looking down the table, Lionel saw only one face which impressed him. The rest had no faces; they had only coloured flesh, bright eyes, and good teeth. Lady Hamlin was out of sight behind the flowers in the great Spanish vases. Old Sir Patrick's grim mug was hidden by the head of the lady who was talking to him. There was a profusion of old silver everywhere. The food and wine did more credit to Sir Patrick's income than to his position as a scientist.
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