She told me that you and I and she herself ought not to be here.

When I asked her why, she said that you and I ought to be gentlemen and that she ought to be a lady.

I told her that you and I were gentlemen, in spite of our trousers.

"Ah," she said, "there comes the difference; I'm not a lady any longer!" When I contradicted her she snubbed me, and said that I hadn't seen enough of the world to know anything about it.

But I'll have it all out of her before I've done.' For some days after that Caldigate kept himself aloof from Mrs.Smith, not at all because he had ceased to notice her or to think about her, but from a feeling of dislike to exhibit rivalry with his friend.