There's nothing in a title except what is put into it--you've said that yourself.

Suppose the title is 'clean,' instead of 'lady.' You get that ?" "I believe so.

Instead of speaking of a woman as a lady, you substitute clean and say she's a clean person." "That's it.

In England the swell folks don't speak of the working people as gentlemen and ladies ?" "Oh, no." "And the working people don't call themselves gentlemen and ladies ?" "Certainly not." "So if you used the other word there wouldn't be any change.

The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean.