It's very funny, but well-dressed Americans--men, I mean--don't often wear their clothes properly; they look as if they felt so awfully well-dressed.

I don't think you will." "Now you've told me about it, I'll try not to." "I think you'll want a good man, though, to keep you up to the mark.

You might get slack, don't you know ?" "No, no; I can't have a valet, and I won't," said Septimus Rainer firmly.
"Ah, we shall have to see what Dorothy says about that," said Tinker with a smile of doubtful meaning.
"That's playing it rather low down on me, isn't it ?" said Septimus Rainer reproachfully.

"It's--it's coercion." "Oh, if you have to wear clothes, you may as well do it thoroughly.

You see, it's been put into my hands, and I must go through with it," said Tinker apologetically.
The millionaire gazed at him ruefully.
"And now," Tinker went on, regarding him with another cold, calculating air, that of a proprietor, "I think I'll take you to a hair-dresser, and have your hair and beard dealt with." "Crop away! crop away!" said the millionaire.
Tinker took him to a hair-dresser, and told the man exactly how he wanted the hair and beard cut.