Your salon would suit their views admirably, if you respected the religious prejudices of the country and provided plenty of kala juggahs.

While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]

Thoſe are but Stratagems which Errors ſeem, / Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.

The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.