However, there it was, and one must make the best of things, as Lady Pomfret so truly said when the choice of a hall was being considered; so there the exhibition was to be held. Luckily the Freemasons, who were considered to do themselves pretty well, had a number of stout trestle tables which could be stacked against the wall and set up when wanted and on these the examples of bookbinding were set out. The opening was to be quite informal, so apart from a few chairs on the platform no other furnishings were required, and the Committee voted unanimously against tea, an action almost unprecedented in the history of the Library Committee which in spite of doing excellent work was apt to be rent by social or personal differences and contained some very good examples of the jealousies which d
