And I knew from personal experience that if science brings men of all ranks into contact, art, especially music, does the same for men and women.

An electrician who can play an accompaniment can go anywhere and know anybody.

As far as mere access and acquaintance go there are no class barriers for him.

My difficulty was not to get my hero into society, but to give any sort of plausibility to my picture of society when I got him into it.

I lacked the touch of the literary diner-out; and I had, as the reader will probably find to his cost, the classical tradition which makes all the persons in a novel, except the comically vernacular ones, or the speakers of phonetically spelt dialect, utter themselves in the formal phrases and studied syntax of eighteenth century rhetoric.