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Miss Dane 's stage experience here was brief , but nevertheless her striking success in her new profession will probably cause the formation of a large and enthusiastic ` I-knew-her-when ' club . '' Jimmy expected to produce an effect with it . But what he did produce exceeded his wildest anticipations . The thing came out in the three o'clock edition , and before he left the office that afternoon -LRB- he stayed a little late , it is true , and it was n't his `` At home '' to press agents either -RRB- he had received , over the telephone , six invitations to dinner ; three of them for that night . He declined the first two on the ground of an enormous press of work incident to his fresh return from a fortnight in New York . But when Violet called up and said , with a reference to a previous engagement that was shamelessly fictitious : `` Jimmy , you have n't forgotten you 're dining with us to-night , have you ? It 's just us , so you need n't dress , '' he answered : `` Oh , no , I 've got it down on my calendar all right .