"Please tell me.

You know I have seen almost nothing of him since he came home." "So I gather," said John.

"Yes, I saw something--not very much--of Master Peter in London.

You see I am not much of a society man;" and he laughed.
"Was Peter a society man ?" said his mother, laughing also, but rather sadly.
"He went out a good deal, and was to be met with in most places," John answered.
"I read his name in lists of dances given by people I did not know he had ever heard of.

But I did not like to ask him how he managed to get invited.