This was not exactly a public recognition of Wolfie’s genius, but in Saturday’s Age there was a long article by Lady Pringle on the importance of the music of Wolfgang von Flugel. He was so proud of this that in the evening he took it in to read to Mrs Montaubyn, who did not understand a word of it. He also gave her a description of the grand party given in his honour, which only filled her with resentment that she had not been invited. She was sure that Wolfie could, if he wanted to, introduce her into circles which she felt that her money and her name entitled her to enter. He was treating her as if she were a street woman, whereas she had not “gone with” anybody since she had met him, and so considered herself highly respectable, especially as she never took money from gentlemen, but was more apt to bestow it. A woman with a flat on the same floor, with whom she sometimes came up in the lift, had been amused and attracted by her, and a few days after Wolfie’s visit, Mrs Montaubyn confided to her that she wanted to “get into society”
