Lady who left in taxi and waved, care to know gent, gray coat?
-- SINCERE.
Also the more dignified request put forward in: GREAT CENTRAL: Gentleman who saw lady in bonnet 9 Monday morning in Great Central Hotel lift would greatly value opportunity of obtaining introduction.
This exhausted the joys of the Agony Column for the day, and West, like the solid citizen he really was, took up the Times to discover what might be the morning's news.

A great deal of space was given to the appointment of a new principal for Dulwich College.

The affairs of the heart, in which that charming creature, Gabrielle Ray, was at the moment involved, likewise claimed attention.

And in a quite unimportant corner, in a most unimportant manner, it was related that Austria had sent an ultimatum to Serbia.

West had read part way through this stupid little piece of news, when suddenly the Thunderer and all its works became an uninteresting blur.
A girl stood just inside the door of the Carlton breakfast room.
Yes; he should have pondered that despatch from Vienna.