As Henry remarked to me when we were discussing Charlie Summers one evening, there are sixty million people living in the United Kingdom, and fifty-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand of them know very well what is meant by the phrase "Do look us up some time". It is a perfectly plain form of dismissal, as used by the English upper and middle classes, indicating that any future crossing of paths would be distinctly unwelcome, if not actively resisted. Charlie was the exception to this rule.