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We're visiting the Sharons."
"About time I knew that! You forget my being so fresh about your
father, will you? Of course he's a distinguished looking man, in a
way."
Lucy was still serious. "In a way?'" she repeated. "You mean, not in
your way, don't you?"
George was perplexed. "How do you mean: not in my way?"
"People pretty often say 'in a way' and 'rather distinguished
looking,' or 'rather' so-and-so, or 'rather' anything, to show that
they're superior don't they? In New York last month I overheard a
climber sort of woman speaking of me as 'little Miss Morgan,' but she
didn't mean my height; she meant that she was important. Her husband
spoke of a friend of mine as 'little Mr. Pembroke' and 'little Mr.
Pembroke' is six-feet-three. This husband and wife were really so
terribly unimportant that the only way they knew to pretend to be
important was calling people 'little' Miss or Mister so-and-so. It's
a kind of snob slang, I think. Of course people don't always say
'rather' or 'in a way' to be superior.


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