Hospitality
October, 1956
The greatest mistake Copley made was to tell his Eskimo story in front of Evan Barrington.Of course, he had always told it everywhere without discrimination (and always with a sharp eye on his discomfited wife), and it must have seemed even more fitting than ever to tell it at this dinner party at Copley's London home. For Barrington, the guest of honor, was leaving the next morning for some remote point inside the Arctic Circle.Copley was a boor. He was one of those boors who often turned up ma...