Then there were concerts, and excursions, and great daily dinners the gayest and most enjoyable imaginable, at which both sexes were considered to be equally scientific and equally welcome.

But one day she mentioned that she had asked to dinner a gentleman from Little Rock who had come to Dakota with the same object as themselves, and whose acquaintance she had made through her lawyer.

I felt it a high distinction that I handed out to dinner the stately lady, the mother of my host.

They would ask the same guests to dinner time after time, six or seven times in succession.

Once when company was expected to dinner Mrs. Washington ordered that a lordly ham should be cooked and served.

She thought those small-town hotel Sunday dinners the last word in elegance.