Mainhall liked Alexander because he was an engineer.

He had preconceived ideas about everything, and his idea about Americans was that they should be engineers or mechanics.

He hated them when they presumed to be anything else.
While they sat at dinner Mainhall acquainted Bartley with the fortunes of his old friends in London, and as they left the table he proposed that they should go to see Hugh MacConnell's new comedy, "Bog Lights." "It's really quite the best thing MacConnell's done," he explained as they got into a hansom.

"It's tremendously well put on, too.

Florence Merrill and Cyril Henderson.