I know nothing about any other class.

What am I to do?
Commonplace people--friends of mine without conscience, counsel me in flippant phrase to "have a shot at it." "I expect, old fellow, you know just as much about it as these other Johnnies do." (I am not defending their conversation either as regards style or matter: I am merely quoting.) "And even if you don't, what does it matter?
The average reader knows less.

How is he to find you out ?" But, as I explain to them, it is the law of literature never to write except about what you really know.

I want to mix with the aristocracy, study them, understand them; so that I may earn my living in the only way a literary man nowadays can earn his living, namely, by writing about the upper circles.
I want to know how to get there..