come-to-nothings

Updated: June 6, 2025

My dear Luttrell, as you know, you are a guest very welcome to me. But you don't belong. We Maud Carstairs, Tony Marsh and the rest of us even Mario Escobar we are the Come-to-nothings. We are the people of the stage door, we grow fat in restaurants. From three to seven, you may find us in the card-rooms of our clubs we are jolly fine fellows and no good.

A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason - The Summons