"An admirable answer that of yours," he murmured as he led her from the room, "admirable snub to her perfectly unwarranted attack on you and your friends." "Of course you realize that she doesn't know any of the people I know," said Mrs.Baxter.

"Why should she begin to abuse them ?" Mr.Wilsey laughed, and shook his finger.
"Just because she doesn't know them.

That, I'm afraid, is the rub.

That's what I usually find lies behind the socialism of socialists--the sense of being excluded.

This poor lady has evidently very little _usage du monde_.