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"Even if he is ridiculous, Prothero, a man may still be an
aristocrat. A man may anyhow be as much of an aristocrat as he can
be."
Prothero reflected. "No," he said, "it sounds all right, but it's
wrong. I hate all these advantages and differences and
distinctions. A man's a man. What you say sounds well, but it's
the beginning of pretension, of pride--"
He stopped short.
"Better, pride than dishonour," said Benham, "better the pretentious
life than the sordid life. What else is there?"
"A life isn't necessarily sordid because it isn't pretentious," said
Prothero, his voice betraying a defensive disposition.
"But a life with a large income MUST be sordid unless it makes some
sort of attempt to be fine. . . ."

9

By transitions that were as natural as they were complicated and
untraceable Prothero found his visit to Chexington developing into a
tangle of discussions that all ultimately resolved themselves into
an antagonism of the democratic and the aristocratic idea. And his
part was, he found, to be the exponent of the democratic idea.


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