HENRY JAMES, I [Anstey] heard from Du Maurier, came up to New Grove House after Trilby had become the talk of the town, and invited him to come for a walk.
'Let us', said Henry James, 'find a seat and sit down and endeavour — if it is in any way possible to arrive at a solution — to discover some reason for such a phenomenon as the success of Trilby.'
From F. Anstey, A Long Retrospect (1938), p. 170.