Why not ?--as Mrs.Hannaford said.

John Jacks, M.P., was undoubtedly the social superior of Dr.Derwent; admitted to the house at Queen's Gate, one might surely with all confidence present oneself in Bryanston Square.

Was he not an educated man, by birth a gentleman?
If he had no position, why, who had at one-and-twenty?
How needlessly he had been humiliating and discouraging himself! In the highest spirits he went down into the garden to talk with Mrs.
Hannaford and Olga.

They gazed at him, astonished; he was a new creature; he joked and laughed and could hardly contain his exuberance of joy.

When there fell from him a casual mention of Mrs.Jacks' card, no one could have imagined that this was the explanation of his altered mood.