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I have to be content with the cheap places . Which do you like best , the Savoy operas or the burlesques at the Gaiety ? ' A few more such questions and answers , of laboured commonplace or strained flippancy , and Everard , after searching his companion 's face , broke off with a laugh . ` There now , ' he said , ` we have talked in the approved five o'clock way . Precisely the dialogue I heard in a drawing-room yesterday . It goes on day after day , year after year , through the whole of people 's lives . ' ` You are on friendly terms with such people ? '