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`` The pleasure would be yours , no doubt , but the responsibility would fall upon me . You intend deliberately to make me out a tout for a restaurant . Where you dine to-night has not the slightest connection with the thread of our story . You know very well that the plot requires that you be in front of the Alhambra Opera House at 11:30 where you are to rescue Miss Ffolliott a second time as the fire engine crashes into her cab . Until that time your movements are immaterial to the reader . Why ca n't you dine out of sight somewhere , as many a hero does , instead of insisting upon an inapposite and vulgar exhibition of yourself ? '' -LSB- Footnote 5 : See advertising column , `` Where to Dine Well , '' in the daily newspapers . -RSB-