They know it isn't so.

But there must be a flavour of the idea.

It isn't nice, but one has to live.' 'Were you ever Cettini before ?' 'Yes,--when I was on the stage as a girl.' Then he thought he remembered that she had once told him some particular in regard to her early life, which was incompatible with this, unless indeed she had gone under more than one name before she was married.

'I used as a child to dance and sing under that name.' 'Was it your father's name ?' She smiled as she answered, 'You want to discover all the little mean secrets of my life at once, and do not reflect that, in so far as they were mean, they are disagreeable as subjects of conversation.

I was not mean myself.' 'I am sure of that.' 'If you are sure of it, is not that enough?
Of course I have been among low people.