“I suppose Ferdinand.”
“Oh, you know ‘The Tempest!’” said the young man, with some surprise.
“I know all Shakespeare’s plays. Do you think I am so very ignorant?”
“I think you are very delightful.”
“Maurice! I thought English gentlemen did not pay compliments.”
“I am the exception that proves the rule,” he replied audaciously. “However, I might have guessed Justinian would have an odd volume of Shakespeare about with him. The Englishman believes in the Bible and Shakespeare, the Englishwoman in the Bible and Burke.”
“Who is Burke?”
“The man that wrote the ‘English Peerage.’”
“What is a peerage?”
“You have read Shakespeare, and do not know what a peerage is! Helena, I’m ashamed of you!”