It will be understood that the food and champagne were of the best--the talk and laughter too, in the sense of belonging to the best society, where no one makes an invidious display of anything in particular, and the advantages of the world are taken with that high-bred depreciation which follows from being accustomed to them. 
: it will be understood that it was of the best - the talk and laughter too, in the sense of belonging to the best society. 