Whist is a fun game and rather addictive to play it well requires a good memory, the ability to think quickly, and a knack for strategy. Whist parties are generally portrayed in her novels as insipid, though closer examination shows that it was, perhaps, the company that made such parties insipid, rather than the entertainment. Reading Jane Austen’s novels, one gets the impression that the author, like Anne Elliot, was no card player. You did not use to like cards but time makes many changes.” – Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot in Persuasion, Vol.
The usual character of them has nothing for me. “You have not been long enough in Bath,” said he, “to enjoy the evening parties of the place.”
