"Not according to English ideas." "Still less according to New York ones, then," asserted Dora.

"They wouldn't think much of it there even if he passed for rich in England." It was a little as if she resented Lorne's comparison of standards, and claimed the American one as at least cis-Atlantic.
"He has a settled income," said Lorne, "and he's never had to work for it, whatever luck there is in that.

That's all I know.

Dora--" "Now, Lorne, you're not to be troublesome." "Your mother hasn't come in at all this evening.

Don't you think it's a good sign ?" "She isn't quite so silly as she was," remarked Dora.