"That discrimination's our only austerity.

You must fall in." "Then what will you call ME ?" "What can we ?" After which, sustainingly, "I'm 'Mitchy,'" our friend stated.
His interlocutor looked slightly queer.

"I don't think I can quite begin.

I'm Mr.Longdon," he almost blushed to articulate.
"Absolutely and essentially--that's exactly what I recognise.

I defy any one to see you," Mitchy declared, "as anything else, and on that footing you'll be, among us, unique." Mr.Longdon appeared to accept his prospect of isolation with a certain gravity.