And, anyhow, he said, she looked quite nice, really very smart; besides, Mrs Mitchell was not the sort of person who would think any the less of a pretty woman for being a little dowdy and out of fashion.
When they drove up to what house agents call in their emotional way a superb, desirable, magnificent town mansion, they saw that a large dinner-party was evidently going on.

A hall porter and four powdered footmen were in evidence.
'By Jove!' said Bruce, as he got out, 'I'd no idea old Mitchell did himself so well as this.'...

The butler had never heard of the Mitchells.

The house belonged to Lord Rosenberg.
'Confound it! 'said Bruce, as he flung himself into the taxi.

'Well! I've made a mistake for once in my life.