How did the narrator get acquainted with the lady? Its from the luncheon lesson
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The lady in question presented herself as a connoisseur of good literature and as an admirer of young Somerset Maugham. She sent him a note telling him she had just read his new novel and would like to have a little chat with him if he would "give her a little luncheon at Foyot's," an expensive Parisian restaurant. Maugham was acquiring a reputation as an author but not making much money. He succumbed to her flattery (and may have hoped that the relationship might blossom into a love affair before he really got a good look at her at the restaurant). His main motive for sacrificing so much of his dwindling money on a luncheonette is summed up in one of the opening sentences of the story:
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