"That WOULD be working him.

But to a beautiful end!" she meditated.

"The only thing would be to get him also asked." "Ah but there you are, don't you see?
Fancy 'getting' Mr.Longdon anything or anywhere whatever! Don't you feel," Vanderbank threw out, "how the impossibility of exerting that sort of patronage for him immediately places him ?" Mrs.Brook gave her companion one of those fitful glances of almost grateful appreciation with which their intercourse was even at its darkest hours frequently illumined.

"As if he were the Primate or the French Ambassador?
Yes, you're right--one couldn't do it; though it's very odd and one doesn't quite see why.

It does place him.