But, as your friends, we cannot permit you to demean yourself by going from our house to a public booth, where vulgar men are smoking and drinking beer.

I wonder you have the courage to contemplate such an act! You have pledged your word.

But if you had pledged your word, child, to swing upon that tree, suspended by your arms, for an hour, could you keep it?
I think not; and to recognize an impossibility economizes time and is one of the virtues of a clear understanding.

It is incompatible that you should dine with Lady Gosstre, and then run away to a drinking booth.

Society will never tolerate one who is familiar with boors.