ABSTRACT
Of course we all know the Newcomes. We may not visit at Park-lane or Bryanston or Fitzroy squares. We may have been too late a summer or two since to meet them at Baden. We should not bow nor perhaps recognize them individually if we did meet. But they are people with whose habits and motives we are familiar-about whom we have talked pleasantly for months-who have been more, perhaps, to each of us than many families of his or her acquaintance. If we question our respective impressions, we may even find that to many intents we have looked upon these ‘Newcomes’ as real personages, as helping to people our world, to attract or repel us, and to point or adorn our moral speculations.
