The talk had evidently impressed M---- as much as it had bored me.

I must first say that Oscar's bedroom was separated from mine by a large sitting-room we had in common.

As a rule I worked in my bedroom in the mornings and he spent a great deal of time out of doors.

On this especial morning, however, I had gone into the sitting-room early to write some letters.

I heard him get up and splash about in his bath: shortly afterwards he must have gone into the next room, which was M----'s, for suddenly he began talking to him in a loud voice from one room to the other, as if he were carrying on a conversation already begun, through the open door.
"Of course it's absurd of Frank talking of social position or the great people of English society at all.