Didn't Remember Her.
The late Lord Salisbury was, said to have had the worst memory for faces ever known. The well-known him which recounts how. hie discussed the war with a rather obscure metobcr.of the House of Com-: mons ujp the-Jfaipression that he was talßmgto Lord Roberts, has gone therounds. In the matter of bad memories for faces, probably the late W. Gv Wills, the playwright, was even less wellendowed than Lord Salisbury. It is said of Mr Wills that on one occasion, when he was travelling abroad, he was accosted by a young lady, who at once opened up rather a friendly conversation. " You do not seem tdi remember me, Mr Wills?" at length she said, when the conversation began to flag. " I am afraid I don't," he replied; ** have we ever met before ?" " Oh, yes, we've met." "But when?" he asked, his curi-i osity being aroused. "Think." "I can't" " Guess." " I'm -very sorry, and I'm sure it is very rude, but I really cannot call you to mind in the least." • " Well, it was last summer. We were engaged."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 63, 3 January 1908, Page 3
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181Didn't Remember Her. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 63, 3 January 1908, Page 3
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