His mother gives herself such airs, and his father is the most terrible old bore in the whole country." "But the match would be an advantageous one--wouldn't it ?" suggested the man strolling at her side, and he stopped to light a cigarette which he took from a golden case.
"Advantageous! Of course it would! But we can't afford to allow it, my dear Jimmy.

Think what such an alliance would mean to us!" "To you, you mean." "To you also.

An ugly revelation might result, remember.

Therefore it must not be allowed.

While Walter was abroad all was pretty plain sailing.