Anyway you needn't mind me.

I shouldn't get onto Pierpont Morgan or W.K.Vanderbilt, if I met 'em in the street." He spoke the two names as an Englishman of his class would have spoken of the Dukes of Westminster or Marlborough.

These were his nobles--the heads of the great American houses, and entirely parallel, in his mind, with the heads of any great house in England.

They wielded the power of the world, and could wield it for evil or good, as any prince or duke might.

Mount Dunstan saw the parallel.
"I apologise, all right," G.Selden ended genially.
"I am not offended," Mount Dunstan answered.