Under favoring circumstances, Isabel's maternal grandfather might have been Archbishop of Canterbury, and have taken precedence of the whole House of Peers, the Princes of the blood Royal alone excepted.

I am not prepared to say that my niece is equally well connected on her father's side.

My sister surprised--I will not add shocked--us when she married a chemist.

At the same time, a chemist is not a tradesman.

He is a gentleman at one end of the profession of Medicine, and a titled physician is a gentleman at the other end.