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Then it occurred to me that he probably would not use his charm on Mary, whom he regarded as a fine person - that, presumably, was reserved for people like me who were less fine, the kind of women who would expect it. The idea depressed me, as did my own sophistication and inability to accept even a pleasant smile from a clergyman at its face value.

It could only be supposed that retirement, like death, is a kind of leveller; and that social differences had been forgotten in the common pleasure of recalling garden parties at the embassies to celebrate the sovereign's birthday, and other similar functions which few people would have been capable of discussing at all knowledgeably.