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CHAPTER
IV
"Manners
are
of
more
importance
ttan
laws.
"
Burke.
"What
Is
a
gentleman?
"
a
young
debutante
naively
asked
of
her
uncle,
a
club
man
and
"
gentleman
of
the
old
school."
The
world-old
query
provoked
the
following
reply
from
the
man,
who
was
too
wary,
how-
ever,
to
fall
Into
the
pitfall
laid
for
him.
"
My
dear,
I
can't
tell
you
In
set
terms.
It
Is
a
condition
of
being
that
Is
no
more
definable
than
a
woman's
charms.
Either
one
Is
or
isn't
a
gentleman
—
that's
all."
"
Has
birth
anything
to
do with
It?"
*'
It
has
—
and
It
hasn't.
There
are
men
of
the
bluest
blood
who
are
hopeless
bounders
and
cads,
and,
on
the
other
hand,
some
of
the
most
per-
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