What was his father ?" "I haven't the least idea." "Or his mother ?" "He has never mentioned her to me." "Nor his family; nor anything of their antecedents?
He is a man fallen out of the moon.

All that is nothing to us as passing acquaintances.

Between men such ignorance should I think bar absolute intimacy;--but that may be a matter of taste.

But it should be held to be utterly antagonistic to any such alliance as that of marriage.
He seems to be a friend of yours.

You had better make him understand that it is quite out of the question.