The author is a humorist

Give instances of the author’s ability to laugh at himself.

Somerset Maugham’s “the Luncheon” begins with a lady friend of the narrator who almost forced him in a cunning and alluring fashion to offer her a treat for a luncheon at Foyot. Given the economic condition of the narrator, it wasn’t possible for him to visit such an exotic place had it not been for the extreme flattery that he was exposed to by the lady friend. At a tender age and having to face such flattery was too much for him to turn down the lady’s request. Besides, the author or the narrator laughs at himself at several moments in the story and especially when the lady takes up the initiative to order expensive delicacies one after the other without consulting with the narrator. The narrator then laughs at his own fault of giving in to the lady’s flattery to visit Foyot.