"It's considered ungentlemanly, nowadays--drinking to excess, I mean." "What do you spend the money for ?" "For good quarters and pictures, and patronizing the sports, and club dues, and entertainments, and things to drive in--for living as a man should." "You've spent a thousand, three hundred dollars for tutoring since you've been there." "Everybody has to do tutoring--more or less." "What did you do with the money you made ?" "What money, father ?" "The money you made tutoring.

You said everybody had to do tutoring.

I suppose you did your share." Arthur did not smile at this "ignorance of the world"; he grew red, and stammered: "Oh, I meant everybody in our set employs tutors." "Then who does the tutoring?
Who're the nobodies that tutor the everybodies ?" Arthur grew cold, then hot.

He was cornered, therefore roused.

He stood, leaned against the table, faced his father defiantly.