"Yes, when there's a woman to be hounded down. They hang together when there's a work of destruction on hand. But do they hang together when there's a work of construction to be done?"
"Do you mean a reputation to be built up?"
Armine pulled his moustache. In the electric light Meyer Isaacson could see that his blue eyes were shining.
"Because," Meyer Isaacson continued, "if you do mean that, I should be inclined to say that each of us must build up his or her reputation individually for himself or herself."
"We need help in nearly all our buildings-up, and how often, how damnably often, we don't get it!"
"Was Mrs. Derringham specially down upon some particular woman to-night?"
"Yes, she was."
"Do you care to tell me upon whom?"
"It was Mrs. Chepstow."
"You were talking about Mrs. Chepstow?" Isaacson said slowly. "The famous Mrs. Chepstow?"