"And who is he?
Not one of the East Sussex Waynes, I hope.

Vulgar people.

They always were; began life as auctioneers in my father's time.

Is he one of those, Adelaide ?" "I have no idea who he is, if any one," said Adelaide.

"I never saw or heard of him before this afternoon." "And may I ask," said her father, "if you intend to let your daughter become engaged to a young man of whom you know nothing whatsoever ?" Adelaide looked extremely languid, one of her methods of showing annoyance.
"Really, Papa," she said, "the fact that he has come once to pay an afternoon visit to Mathilde does not, it seems to me, make an engagement inevitable.