She found him well-informed, clever, and dogmatic.
The culminating point was reached when she embarked on a stray remark concerning certain events then happening in India.
He contradicted her with a lofty politeness.
She quoted a book on Kashmir.
He laughed the authority to scorn.

"Lewis Haystoun ?" he asked.

"What can he know about such things?
A wandering dilettante, the worst type of the pseudo-culture of our universities.

He must see all things through the spectacles of his upbringing." Fortunately he spoke in a low voice, but Lord Manorwater caught the name.
"You are talking about Lewie," he said; and then to the table at large, "do you know that Lewie is home?
I saw him to-day." Bertha Afflint clapped her hands.

"Oh, splendid! When is he coming over?
I shall drive to Etterick to-morrow.