And a lady is not a lady because she wears fine clothes and speaks one or two foreign languages very badly.

For that's about all a 'lady's' education amounts to nowadays.

According to Victorian annals, 'ladies' used to be fairly accomplished--they played and sang music well, and knew that it was necessary to keep up intelligent conversation and maintain graceful manners--but they've gone back to sheer barbarism in the frantic ugliness of their performances at hockey--and they've taken to the repulsive vices of Charles the Second's time in gambling and other immoralities.

No, David! I don't take kindly to the 'ladies' who disport themselves under the benevolent dispensation of King Edward the Seventh." Helmsley was silent.

After a pause, Reay went on-- "You see, David, I'm a poor chap--poorer than Mary is.