Ethel.

No, I think you might be an awfully good friend.

Serlo.

It’s jolly of you to say so. You know, I can’t stick your family. Can you?

Ethel.

[Smiling.] You see, I knew them before they were rich. When you’ve lived all your life in a sordid narrow way, it’s very hard to have such enormous wealth as ours.

Serlo.

You make allowances for them, but you never did for me.

Ethel.

It would have been very impertinent of me.