At first he had been alert chiefly for unfamiliarity and peculiarity; any foppishness in their dress, any discordance with his preconceptions of nobility in their status and manners had jarred upon him, and it was remarkable to him how soon that strangeness and the faint hostility that arose from it, disappeared; how soon he came to appreciate the true perspective of his position, and see the old Victorian days remote and quaint.

He found himself particularly amused by the red-haired daughter of the Manager of the European Piggeries.

On the second day after dinner he made the acquaintance of a latter-day dancing girl, and found her an astonishing artist.

And after that, more hypnotic wonders.

On the third day Lincoln was moved to suggest that the Master should repair to a Pleasure City, but this Graham declined, nor would he accept the services of the hypnotists in his aeronautical experiments.