"The dinner was excellent exquisite. Ségouin Jimmy decided had a very refined taste. The party was increased by a young Englishman named Routh whom Jimmy had seen with Ségouin at Cambridge. The young men supped in a snug room lit by electric candle-lamps. They talked volubly and with little reserve. Jimmy whose imagination was kindling conceived the lively youth of the Frenchmen twined elegantly upon the firm framework of the Englishman's manner. A graceful image of his he thought and a just one. He admired the dexterity with which their host directed the conversation. The five young men had various tastes and their tongues had been loosened. Villona with immense respect began to discover to the mildly surprised Englishman the beauties of the English madrigal deploring the loss of old instruments. Rivière not wholly ingenuously undertook to explain to Jimmy the triumph of the French mechanicians."