langtry , who had taken down the entire conversation in shorthand , immediately copied it out in longhand , with a carbon , and posted one copy to london , going directly to the post office to do it , for he no longer trusted the situation at the hotel then he went to rent a tailcoat and boded shirt for the party the following night 'i am thoroughly confused , ' he had written in his letter 'i had been certain she had a hand in getting rid of poor stuart now i do n't know what to think she was n't lying to me , i am sure of it but why is she frightened7 of course i can not make an intelligent appraisal of her until i see her ' late that afternoon , he called irwin dandrich , the socialite spy for hire , and asked him to have dinner at a fashionable french quarter restaurant blocks from the hotel .