“The Shell have been perfectly beastly to him, just because he told them all on his first day that he was a duke.” “Is he?” asked Gaunt, skimming the tops of tombstones with his fingertips as he walked. “Yes, he is, but that’s the sort of thing one ought to let people discover. It’s rather like me introducing myself by saying, ‘Hello, I’m Sidney Ellwood, I’m devastatingly attractive.’ It’s not for me to say.”
