"I thought that the people who actually had the real what-you-may-call-it didn't know it," he said.

"I've always understood that it was very unsatisfactory, because if you thought about it you didn't have it, and if you had it you didn't know it." "That's just bosh," she retorted.

"They know it in this town, all right! I found out a lot of things, long before we began to think of building out in this direction.

The right people in this town aren't always the society-column ones, and they mix around with outsiders, and they don't all belong to any one club--they're taken in all sorts into all their clubs--but they're a clan, just the same; and they have the clan feeling and they're just as much We, Us and Company as any crowd you read about anywhere in the world.

Most of 'em were here long before papa came, and the grandfathers of the girls of my age knew each other, and--" "I see," Bibbs interrupted, gravely.