"A Party for the Girls."

One of two comic celebrations of life in the late story collection, The Fabulous Mrs V (the other being "A Couple of Fools").

A group of older women drink lavish quantities of alcohol at a luncheon and compete for the attention of the sole male guest.

In New Strand (December 1961), The Fabulous Mrs V (1964), A Party for the Girls (1988). Reprinted in The Compleat Imbiber (no. 5, 1962).