Sunday, May 03, 2020

The proprieties of rank

"It's so exasperating!" she broke out. "When I first told my friends that I was engaged to Lord Dawlish they were tremendously impressed. They took it for granted that you must have lot of money. Now I have to keep explaining to them that the reason we don't get married is that we can't afford to. I almost as badly off as poor Polly Davis who was in the Heavenly Waltz Company with me when she married that man, Lord Wetherby. A man with a title has no right not to have money. It makes the whole thing farcical."

(from Uneasy Money, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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