NEWS FROM A TEA-ROOM

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 90, 10 January 1931, Page 19

NEWS FROM A TEA-ROOM

We are sometimes rather sorrowful as we think over all the good people in the world who never find, perhaps, the very friend who is waiting for them up the next street. But a happy Instance of how a friendship was begun reached us the other day. Two ladies, an old one and a youthful novelist, sat talking in the restaurant of a beautiful West End shop. At the next table sat a lady alone. When she had finished her tea she came Over to the pair. “Will you forgive me (She said) if I say that I cotild not help listening to all your conversation?” The other two had been having a very spirited discussion, and glanced at one another amusedly. “And (added the stranger) I have never been so entertained by any talk in my life. I should very much like to know you. My name is So and So. I play in the So and So string quartet.” “And I am So and So,” spoke up the young novelist, Neither of these ladies had reached real fame, clever though they were, and they were rather tickled at the idea that neither of them had ever heard of the other. They smiled at one another, and the novelist tapped a chair beside her invitingly. Down sat the musical stranger, and the friendship was begun,