I suppose you are going to have a great many people ?" "I am afraid Glencora has overdone it.

I don't know why I should trouble you by saying so, but it makes me uneasy." "I can't see why." "I fear she has got some idea into her head of astounding the world by display." "I think she has got an idea of conquering the world by graciousness and hospitality." "It is as bad.

It is, indeed, the same thing.

Why should she want to conquer what we call the world?
She ought to want to entertain my friends because they are my friends; and if from my public position I have more so-called friends than would trouble me in a happier condition of private life, why, then, she must entertain more people.
There should be nothing beyond that.

The idea of conquering people, as you call it, by feeding them, is to me abominable.