Mr.Clifford used to describe him as 'a bit of a bounder--in fact, a complete outsider--but no fool.' His estimate of Mr.Clifford was perhaps less complimentary.
'Every business,' he used to say, 'must have at least one gentleman in it to do the entertaining and the dining out.

We have Mr.Clifford.

He's a first-rate man at one of the Lord Lieutenant's balls.' A professor from Trinity College was one of the two guests conducted by the Reverend Mother herself.

Nominally this learned gentleman existed for the purpose of impressing upon the world the beauties of Latin poetry, but he was best known to fame as an orator on the platforms of the Primrose League, and a writer of magazine articles on Irish questions.

He was a man who owed his success in life largely to his faculty for always keeping beside the most important person present.