\"Whew—a Countess!\" whistled Ned Winsett. \"Well, I didn't know Countesses were so neighbourly. Mingotts ain't.\"
\"They would be, if you'd let them.\"
\"Ah, well—\" It was their old interminable argument as to the obstinate unwillingness of the \"clever people\" to frequent the fashionable, and both men knew that there was no use in prolonging it.
\"I wonder,\" Winsett broke off, \"how a Countess happens to live in our slum?\"
\"Whew—a Countess!\" whistled Ned Winsett. \"Well, I didn't know Countesses were so neighbourly. Mingotts ain't.\"
\"They would be, if you'd let them.\"
\"Ah, well—\" It was their old interminable argument as to the obstinate unwillingness of the \"clever people\" to frequent the fashionable, and both men knew that there was no use in prolonging it.
\"I wonder,\" Winsett broke off, \"how a Countess happens to live in our slum?\"
