"He fought like a gentleman." "These people are so rarely gentlemen," said Mrs.Andrews, proud of her high attitude.

"I suppose his father made his money in coal and bought the land from some poor dear old aristocrat.

It is so sad to think of it.

And that sort of person is always over-educated, for you see they have not the spirit of the old families and they bury themselves in books." Mrs.Andrews's father had kept a crockery shop, but his daughter had buried the memory.
Mr.Wishart frowned.

The lady had been asked down for her husband's sake, and he did not approve of this chatter about family.