There were many reasons for the survival of the Turrets as an expensive curiosity in a sophisticated swinging world but the greatest was Miss Charlotte Cambric’s skill as a hostess on those occasions where she gave her whole mind to the problem. No normal man ever left her table without the secret conviction that the occasion had been designed especially for him and most of them flattered themselves on having added their own notable contribution, even if the best of their witticisms eluded them on reflection. Older women discovered that they still possessed style and enough charm to compete with their daughters where intelligent men were concerned and the younger ones forgot to be bored because of the excellence of the food, the element of fancy dress and the promise of lamp-lit dalliance
