...es. After dinner we adjourned to the drawing-room, where we had coffee, and joined the soiree of our host. Here I talked with several persons. There were Spanish, Italians, Germans, French, and Americans present, and through the medium of French I talked with all. The Baron, our host, was kind enough to give me a ticket to the House of Peers, to sit in the box set apart, I think, for the eldest sons...