"This, by the way, is the only decent cigarette I have found in America.

I hate to smoke perfume--I like tobacco--and most of your shops seem to keep nothing but the highly scented Turkish and Egyptian varieties." "They were made in London," said Cleggett, bowing.
"Ah! But where was I?
Oh, yes--one must conform.

Especially if one belongs to, or has married into, the Claiborne family.

Of all the men in England the Earl of Claiborne is the most conservative, the most reactionary, the most deeply encrusted with prejudice.

He would stop at little where the question concerned the prestige of the aristocracy in general; he would stop at nothing where the Claiborne family is concerned.
"I am telling you all this so that you may get an inkling of the blow it was to him when I became a militant suffragist.