Hector Hugh Munro

The catalogue lists Saki with lifetime years 1870–1916; its author page explicitly gives Munro, Hector Hugh as an alias. The linked title page identifies H. H. Munro as Saki, allowing this reading to connect to the existing Hector Hugh Munro label without renaming it. The transcription credits the 1914 John Lane, The Bodley Head edition and David Price. Its title page also lists New York and Toronto imprints. No checked ISBN is supplied. These edition facts and alias references do not authenticate every saying under the contributor label.

Project Gutenberg catalogue — Beasts and Super-Beasts ↗Checked related reading — Beasts and Super-Beasts ↗Project Gutenberg author record — Saki / Munro, Hector Hugh ↗ Catalogue identity/lifetime and linked edition credits, framing or cast

In Fur, Eleanor asks Suzanne to spend an evening playing bridge so Eleanor can speak privately with a visitor. Suzanne declines because the game would bore her, prompting the narrator’s comment about sacrifices of friendship being attractive until she must make them herself. The surrounding shopping trip and wanted gift make the contrast part of a comic exchange. The complete selected English sentence matches the checked transcription under limited normalization. It is a judgement of Suzanne in this scene, not proof that every friendship or request for help has the same character.

Checked related reading — Beasts and Super-Beasts ↗ Fur; narrator comments on Suzanne after Eleanor asks her to join a bridge game