"I hope he's a gentleman. I don't believe in mixing classes, simply because it seems to me that one class never really understands another, not at all because one class isn't just as good as another."
"Of course he's a gentleman. Mrs. Shiffney asked him to come on the yacht."
"Oh! Mr. Heath!" observed Miss Fleet.
Charmian thought she detected a slight change in the deep chest tone of her companion's voice.
"D'you know him?" she asked, almost sharply.
"No."
"Have you seen him?"
"No, never. I only heard that he might be coming from Adelaide, and then that he wasn't coming."
"He knew I was coming and he refused to come. Isn't it degrading?"
"Is he a great friend of yours?"