"It was like a house meant for a street in the city.

What kind of a house was that for people of any taste to build out here in the country ?" "But papa says it's built that way on purpose.

There are a lot of other houses being built in this direction, and papa says the city's coming out this way; and in a year or two that house will be right in town." "It was a bum house, anyhow," said George crossly.

"I don't even know the people that are building it.

They say a lot of riffraff come to town every year nowadays and there's other riffraff that have always lived here, and have made a little money, and act as if they owned the place.
Uncle Sydney was talking about it yesterday: he says he and some of his friends are organizing a country club, and already some of these riffraff are worming into it--people he never heard of at all! Anyhow, I guess it's pretty clear you don't know a great deal about architecture." She demonstrated the completeness of her amiability by laughing.