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`` But you must have heard it said that the drawing-room disappeared forever with the somnolent years of James and the antic heyday of Coward.

I myself hear it said constantly -- in drawing-rooms.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

I stood up and began pacing.