I am sure there are more impossibilities in the peerage than in the nouveaux riches.

I know heaps of people who because their names are in Debrett seem to think that manners are unnecessary, and that they have a sort of God-sent title to gentility." Brooks laughed.
"Why," he said, "you are more than half a Radical." "It is your influence," she said, demurely.
"It will soon pass away," he sighed.

"To-morrow you will be back again amongst your friends." She sighed.
"Why do one's friends bore one so much more than other people's ?" she exclaimed.
"When one thinks of it," he remarked, "you must have been very bored here.

Why, for the last fortnight there have been no other visitors in the house." "There have been compensations," she said.
"Tell me about them!" he begged.
She laughed up at him.
"If I were to say the occasional visits of Mr.Kingston Brooks, would you be conceited ?" "It would be like putting my vanity in a hothouse," he answered, "but I would try and bear it." "Well, I will say it, then!" He turned and looked at her with a sudden seriousness.

Some consciousness of the change in his mood seemed to be at once communicated to her.