1 6 CONVERSATIONAL HINTS 



happen the other way round. You may have ex- 

 pressed a preference for solid lunches, only to find 

 yourself set down on a tuft of grass, with a beef 

 sandwich and a digestive biscuit. In that case 

 you can begin by declaring your delight in an open- 

 air meal, go on to admire the scenery, and end by 

 expressing a certain amount of judicious contempt 

 for the Sybarite who cannot tear himself away from 

 effeminate luxuries. 



But this subject is so great, and has so many 

 varieties, that we must recur to it in our next. 



