(St. James’s Street)
Mr. Reginald Hyphen is terribly “one of us;”
He was born with a mouth just made for a silver spoon,
And he’s always “dwedfully late” when he comes to dine.
The thought of the Middle Classes makes him swoon,
And he never will dance unless he is sure of the wine—
And O, it was such an affair, when he took a ’bus!
And yet he’s not only a butterfly, carefully smart,
He thinks a great deal, and has a devotion to Art.
He has read some Meredith, too—“Rather neat in its way”—