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I agree with Aristotle that there is such a thing as a
natural inferior."
"So far as I can understand Mr. Prothero," said Lady Marayne, "he
thinks that all the inferiors are the superiors and all the
superiors inferior. It's quite simple. . . ."
It made Prothero none the less indignant with this, that there was
indeed a grain of truth in it. He hated superiors, he felt for
inferiors.

10

At last came the hour of tipping. An embarrassed and miserable
Prothero went slinking about the house distributing unexpected gold.
It was stupid, it was damnable; he had had to borrow the money from
his mother. . . .
Lady Marayne felt he had escaped her. The controversy that should
have split these two young men apart had given them a new interest
in each other. When afterwards she sounded her son, very
delicately, to see if indeed he was aware of the clumsiness, the
social ignorance and uneasiness, the complete unsuitability of his
friend, she could get no more from him than that exasperating
phrase, "He has ideas!"
What are ideas? England may yet be ruined by ideas.


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