Twain's End - Pg 21

   He once told Isabel, after giving a dinner for eighteen worthies from New York in his former Fifth Avenue home, that he felt a good host should monopolize the conversation so his guests could be free to enjoy their meal. Mark Twain should entertain so they could relax. She had wondered then how the real Sam Clemens bore up to the burden that Mr. Twain so frequently imposed upon him, and had turned to him to ask. But he had shut his eyes as if to nap, his beautiful head sinking against the back of his chair, the subject closed.