No one minds if hospitality isn't returned immediately, just so long as there is a promise and some expectation of it in the not-too-distant future. The moment you have sorted out your house or flat, in fact.

The impression to create is that of your home being furnished and decorated in readiness for these your very special guests. You would have them round to dinner tomorrow but you don't yet have a table. (The fact that you have been living there for six-and-a-half years is an indication of the painstaking preparations that are being made for The Visit.)

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