"Oh, Eddie, how dreadful!"

"I don't see that at all. Just as well, perhaps. You don't want to get
yourself into such a position as poor Eugenia."

"I do, I would. I'd give anything to be as much in love as Eugenia."

"What? With a fellow like that! A complete outsider."

"Outside of what? The human race?"

"Well, no," said Eddie, as if he were yielding a good deal, "but
outside of your traditions and your set."

"My set! Good for him to be outside of it, I say. What have they ever
done to make anyone want to be inside of it? Why, David is an educated
gentleman. To hear him quote Horace--"

"Horace who?"

"Really, Eddie."

"Oh, I see. You mean the poet. That's nothing to laugh at, Crystal. It
was a natural mistake. I thought, of course, you meant some of those
anarchists who want to upset the world."

Crystal looked at him more honestly and seriously than she had yet
done.