For the third part of thirty pounds you could rent a four-roomed house, but what is a four-roomed house, what is thirty pounds, compared to the glory of being a member of a club?
Where does the glory come in?
Sal, you needna ask me, I'm just a doited auld stock that never set foot in a club, so it's little I ken about glory.

But I may tell you if you bide in London and canna become member of a club, the best you can do is to tie a rope round your neck and slip out of the world.

What use are they?
Oh, they're terrible useful.

You see it doesna do for a man in London to eat his dinner in his lodgings.

Other men shake their heads at him.