"Looks down on most of the Four Hundred as _hoi polloi_.

She's in Europe now, and the papers say she won't be back until the very end of summer.

We can't do a thing till then; have to lie low and wait.

You need money, I heard you say; I suppose you're afraid to hock this twinkler"-- touching the pearl pendant.

"Police probably watching the pawnshops and would nab you.