She was secretly indignant with Anne's view of Walter as unpresentable in the circles of the spiritual _elite_.
"It never struck her that you mightn't need an introduction after all; that you were in it as much as she.

That's the sort of mistake one might expect from--from a spiritual parvenu, but not from Anne." "Oh, come, I don't consider myself her equal by a long chalk." "Well, say she does belong to the peerage; you're a gentleman, and what more can she require ?" "She can't see that I am (If I am.

You say so).

She considers me--spiritually--a bounder of the worst sort." "That's her mistake.

Though I must say you sometimes lend yourself to it with your horrible profanity." "I can't help it, Edie.