ABSTRACT
The working-parties were a huge social success. They were a novelty, and that means much. Royalty was included in the list of patrons. Society took the functions under its charge, and it became one of the “smartest ” things of the season to arrange “a working table” for one of the Friday nights at the Albert Hall. It was a curious thing that, even at the end, when the game—to cloak which these meetings were arranged—had been played out to its bitter conclusion, the working-parties themselves never fell under suspicion; and the huge bazaar, before society dispersed at the end of the season, realised a substantial sum of many thousands which were added to the Hospital Fund.
